Consumption Quotes

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. (Thorstein Veblen)
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Consumption may be regarded as negative production. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. View quote
Guy Debord
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. View quote
Adam Smith
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. View quote
Manuel Puig
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. View quote
Neal Barnard
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. View quote
Eugenio Montale
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. (Doug Larson)
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? View quote
David R. Brower
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. View quote
David R. Brower
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
...where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?... View quote
Thomas Malthus
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption. View quote
Thomas Malthus
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. View quote
Thomas Malthus
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
In a community wherepublic services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity. View quote
Raj Patel
Happiness does not come from consumption of things. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time. View quote
Masanobu Fukuoka