Ability Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of…

— Brigham Young

“Value is based on perception, availability, necessity and desire.”

— Steven Redhead

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

— Baltasar Gracian

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far…

— Adam Smith

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

— Susan Sontag

The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the…

— Bernard d'Espagnat

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their…

— Sandye Gloria-Palermo

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and…

— Robert Greene

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

— Saul Berman

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.…

— Jenna Wortham