Consuming Quote by Karl Marx

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

— Karl Marx

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

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how…

— Karl Marx

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

— Karl Marx

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then…

— Frans van Houten

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

— Louis Althusser

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

— Adam Smith

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

Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

— Pierre Omidyar