Currents Quote by Robert Trout

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of…

— Robert Trout

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

— Louis Althusser

There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it…

— Alex Steffen

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal…

— Benjamin Spock

We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them pose no…

— John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

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

— Karl Marx

“production capability increases through investment and productivity gains, allowing supply to expand to sustain the growing demand and to generate increasing net incomes. The…

— Edward A. Hudson

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies -…

— Felix Guattari

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means…

— Nassau William Senior

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

— Mac Thornberry

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that,…

— Peter Diamandis