Better off Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more…

— Tim DeChristopher

We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you…

— Joe Vitale

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of…

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

— John Robbins

Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising that we…

— Chip Giller

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away…

— Alan Thein Durning

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

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all…

— Erich Fromm

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it…

— David Ricardo

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

— Adam Smith

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful…

— Aristotle