Consumption Quote by Tim Jackson Download Open image “For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.” — Tim Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumption End of the day Ends Growth Materials Pleasure Prosperity The end of the day Wealth
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
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Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at the instant you want to do it. — Raymond Charles Barker Copy Share Image
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“The overriding aim of this book is to seek viable responses to the biggest dilemma of our times: reconciling our aspirations for the good… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
