Consumption Quotes - page 2

I'm not getting elected dictator or king. But if I could wave a magic wand, I would eliminate income tax. I would eliminate corporate tax. And I would replace it with one federal consumption tax. (Gary Johnson)
The process of consumption... is the final act in the economic drama. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting. View quote
Ted Nelson
We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus. View quote
Michael Haneke
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. View quote
Karl Marx
No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. View quote
Karl Marx
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. View quote
Karl Marx
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus. (Paul A. Baran)
We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics. View quote
Thomas Piketty
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian
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. View quote
Nicholas Stern
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money. View quote
James Surowiecki
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing. View quote
Emily Oster
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. View quote
Jose Mujica
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. View quote
Aunjanue Ellis
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. (Bernard M. Oliver)
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. View quote
David Brainerd
By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher. View quote
David F. Houston
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. View quote
David R. Brower