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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
— David Ricardo
It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.
— Nicholas Carr
Other studies support this result, showing that doubling the size of a container of snack food increases consumption by 30 to 45 percent.15 I
— Leonard Mlodinow
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
— Thorstein Veblen
Don't tax my income, tax my consumption.
— Bill Gates
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
— Maurice Strong
Violent consumption demands violent production.
— Bryant McGill
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
— Jock Sturges
Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.
— Charles Eisenstein
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
— Ivan Illich
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
— Susan George
When we buy junk, we become junk.
— Bryant McGill
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.
— Walker Percy
The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
— Bernardo Houssay
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
— Marilyn Manson
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
— Noam Chomsky
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.
— James Dale Davidson
Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.
— Peter Saville
Happiness does not come from consumption of things.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.
— Dennis Garvin
In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher - not lower - risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3
— T. Colin Campbell
Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.
— Edward T. Welch
For spirits like ours, freedom is consumption, transportation on beams of sun
— Terrence Alonzo Craft
Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!
— George Bernard Shaw
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
— Jason Calacanis
Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.
— Jeanette Winterson
Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.
— Lou Jiwei
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
— Vagit Alekperov
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Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder .
— Ilana Mercer
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
— Richard Reeves
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
— Freddie Mercury
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
— Mohamed El-Erian
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
— Corey Feldman
The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.
— William Stanley Jevons
electricity consumption, rail cargo and bank loans.
— Matthew Crabbe
Mindful consumption is the way out of our difficulties, not just our personal difficulties, but also the way out of war, poverty, and climate crisis.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
— Andy Stanley
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.
— Norbert Reithofer
He looked like how Victorian Romantic poets looked just before the consumption and drug abuse really started to cut it.
— Terry Pratchett
Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.
— Alan Goodare
The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
— Barbara Kingsolver
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.
— Leslie Bradshaw
Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's
— Aldous Huxley
Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.
— Russell Kirk
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
A lot of evidence indicates that we are destroying the foundations of human prosperity in an orgy of reckless consumption.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific.
— George Orwell
Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.
— Shoshana Zuboff
Consumption never creates wealth.
— Kurt Richebacher
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
— E.F. Schumacher
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
— Hannah Arendt
Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production.
— Clive Thompson
No sausage? he asked.Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record. — Maureen Johnson
Their excessive consumption of fiction was an essential distraction from their broken home.
— Michael Ebner
The process of consumption ... is the final act in the economic drama
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.
— Norman Foster
Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.
— Gene Baur
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
— Herman E. Daly
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
— Warren Buffett
Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.
— Andy Stanley
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
— Mike Vallely
Expensive clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.
— John Robbins
conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us.
— Jacob Lund Fisker
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
— Robert Nelson
All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we're a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.
— Robert Wringham
Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.
— Susan Sontag
All Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication
— Allen Ginsberg
Pornography is the consumption of sexual poison that becomes part of the fabric of the mind.
— William M. Struthers
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
— Barney Oliver
