Consumption Economics Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [ ... ] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Kenneth Rexroth

#4. We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. 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

#6. No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Gerald Jampolsky

#7. He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.

Janet Evanovich

#8. The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential

Phil Harding

#9. In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experience of looking at art becomes a form of consumption.

Amy Whitaker

#10. The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

William Stanley Jevons

#11. Only those who believe can achieve what others merely dream about.
However, without these same dreams we will achieve little.
Dream AND believe to ACHIEVE!!!

Leslie Austin

#12. There was no doubt about it. I was falling for my stepbrother. Long term this would likely result in my ending up on a tacky daytime talk show with other people who had an unnatural love for their relatives.

Eileen Cook

#13. Without God's grace, we stumble in sin.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.

Tricia Helfer

#15. The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#16. The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.

John Sulston

#17. Never trust a duck.

Cassandra Clare

#18. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges