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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. -- Adam Smith
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. -- E. F. Schumacher
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. -- Thorstein Veblen
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. -- Neal Barnard
Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. -- Jerry Brown
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. -- Thomas Jefferson
Consumption never creates wealth. -- Kurt Richebacher
Consumption has massively benefited from globalization. -- Christine Lagarde
Consumption may be regarded as negative production. -- Alfred Marshall
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. -- John Ralston Saul
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production. -- Adam Smith
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. -- Maurice Strong
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. -- Evan Dando
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. -- Christopher Lasch
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. -- Arthur Erickson
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. -- Robert Nelson
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. -- Guy Debord
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. -- Noam Chomsky
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
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 a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community. -- Juliet B. Schor
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse. -- Sherwood Boehlert
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. -- George Santayana
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production. -- Karl Marx
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? -- David R. Brower
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption. -- Sherwood Boehlert
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large. -- Kenzaburo Oe
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. -- David R. Brower
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. -- Thorstein Veblen
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. -- David R. Brower
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry. -- Thomas Malthus
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. -- Doug Larson
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. -- Pankaj Mishra
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. -- Raoul Vaneigem
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner. -- Elon Musk
Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later. -- Adam Davidson
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. -- Evo Morales
When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet. -- Nhat Hanh
India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country. -- Chanda Kochhar
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet. -- Jose Mujica
Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health. -- David Perlmutter
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations. -- Paul Hawken
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. -- Emily Levine
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. -- Ramez Naam
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food. -- Nicholas Stern
I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. -- Trent Reznor
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. -- Rex Tillerson
A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it. -- Randeep Hooda
Violent consumption demands violent production. -- Bryant McGill
Meat consumption shouldn't be normal. -- Gene Baur
Gas consumption is growing everywhere. -- Vagit Alekperov
Truth is commodity in political consumption. -- Toba Beta
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I am a weapon of massive consumption -- Lily Allen
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We need an energy bill that encourages consumption. -- George W. Bush
Happiness does not come from consumption of things. -- Nhat Hanh
Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption. -- Peter Saville
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity. -- Raj Patel
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The habits of the West in terms of consumption. -- Bill McKibben
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. -- Tim Jackson
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. -- William Shenstone
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. -- John Baldacci
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that's not for male consumption. -- Erykah Badu
This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. -- Toba Beta
No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. -- Karl Marx
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful. -- Tim Gunn
It's the method of consumption, not what's on the plate. -- Patton Oswalt
I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon. -- Jim Gaffigan
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. -- Andy Stanley
And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. -- Tim Holden
The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption. -- Yehuda Levi
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity. -- Raj Patel
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. -- Simon N. Patten
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun. -- Charles Eisenstein
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web. -- Mike McCue
The process of consumption ... is the final act in the economic drama -- Kenneth E. Boulding
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status -- Jonathon Porritt
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. -- Jimmy Carter
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. -- Guy de Maupassant
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. -- Allan Bloom
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place -- Ivan Illich
There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children. -- Eric Schlosser
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. -- Ivan Illich
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices. -- Shantanu Narayen
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather. -- Anne Fadiman
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. -- Susan George
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news. -- Norman Foster
...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations -- Jonathon Porritt
Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption. -- Jennifer Sodini
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, -- Andrea Illy
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. -- James Dale Davidson
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers... -- Mike Huckabee
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. -- Cornel West
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption. -- Pankaj Mishra
Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States. -- Dieter Zetsche
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. -- Ivan Illich
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. -- Benjamin Franklin
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption. -- David Ricardo
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption. -- John Adams
No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record. -- Maureen Johnson
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. -- Noam Chomsky
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems. -- Corey Feldman
What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption. -- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. -- Arianna Huffington
The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior. -- Jay Baer
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. -- Bernard M. Oliver
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. -- Bernard M. Oliver
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
We are talking about creating a legal framework to regulate the production, transit and consumption of drugs. -- Otto Perez Molina
where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?... -- Thomas Malthus

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