19th century Quote by Petr Skrabanek

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

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

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

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…

— Rodney Clapp

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

— Alfred Marshall

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as…

— Tom Szaky

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it…

— Lobsang Tenzin

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able…

— Pope Francis

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would…

— Lewis Mumford

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods,"…

— Kenneth E. Boulding