Top 100 Quotes About Consumption
#1. I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.
Jay-Z
#2. Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
Mohamed El-Erian
#3. Price is not the same thing as value. Over the long term, value should be the same as a price that leads to proper decisions about consumption, exploitation, and investment, without extinguishing the resource.
Ian Harris
#4. If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
Barbara Kruger
#5. 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
#6. Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Tim Jackson
#7. Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
Peter Joseph
#8. 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
#9. 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.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. 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
#11. We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.
Martin Rees
#12. The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
Timothy Noah
#13. The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Ivan Illich
#14. I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.
Nimrat Kaur
#15. I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.
James Spader
#17. Whatever the world has tried to tell us about love," he said as his eyes looked deeply into hers and he shook his head, "it isn't right." Ana nodded gently in agreement. "They think love is all about consumption but I think real love deprives when necessary.
Bella Bryce
#18. did you ever consider that lsd and color TV arrived for our consumption around the same time? Here comes all this explorative color pounding, and what do we do? we outlaw one and fuck up the other.
Charles Bukowski
#19. We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
Ha-Joon Chang
#20. The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
Simon Hoggart
#21. Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
S. Jay Olshansky
#22. The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#23. Like hedonistic consumption, we are encouraged to believe that the excesses of the family are normal and that it is abnormal to believe that one can have a functional, loving family.
Bell Hooks
#24. There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
David Ricardo
#25. There are numerous historical reports as well as visual images that link mushroom consumption to the ritual of sacrifice. These include bloodletting, penis perforation, and even the improbable act of self-decapitation.
John Rush
#26. Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy Carter
#27. Consummation is consumption
We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume
All joys are cakes and vanish in eating
All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth
Wilfred Owen
#28. Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.
Russell Kirk
#29. Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
Robert Reich
#30. It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.
Rick Wagoner
#31. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
William Shakespeare
#32. I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.
Roxane Gay
#33. Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. 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. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.
Trent Reznor
#35. The world of global drug production, shipping distribution, sales, and consumption is too complex, however, to be understood in any single us-and-them story.
John Gibler
#36. It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
Anne Fadiman
#37. What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.
Jason Kilar
#38. Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.
Gene Baur
#39. I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.
Matt Fraction
#40. electricity consumption, rail cargo and bank loans.
Matthew Crabbe
#41. It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Michael Crapo
#42. It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.
Nicholas Carr
#43. It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
David Riesman
#44. It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.
Thomas Hobbes
#45. If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
B.F. Skinner
#46. In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."
Neal Barnard
#47. The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.
Simon N. Patten
#48. The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
Bernardo Houssay
#49. We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.
Anthony Esolen
#50. 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.
David F. Houston
#51. Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
Charles Bowden
#52. 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
#53. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
Pankaj Mishra
#54. Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Vandana Shiva
#55. We've never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don't think it's going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
Ben Bernanke
#56. Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
Daisaku Ikeda
#57. In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.
Michael Greger
#58. When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
Gary Bauer
#59. Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.
Joy Bryant
#60. Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#61. 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
#62. The often repeated delight that families express in recognizing and experiencing togetherness is wholly contained by the way the pleasure of a collective experience is produced by consumption and reinforces consumerism.
Susan Willis
#63. In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Raoul Vaneigem
#64. I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.
Susan Orlean
#65. Many countries in the world do not allow GMO crops because of the known health risks and the unknown consequences when it comes to human consumption.
John Bergman
#66. 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
#67. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!
Nelson DeMille
#68. Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.
Paul Meyer
#69. Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.
Mark Sisson
#70. It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.
David Byrne
#71. Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216)
Fadia Faqir
#72. The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.
Robert Nelson
#73. People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'
Max Schneider
#74. 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
#75. I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.
Stephen Colbert
#76. Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
Gary Johnson
#77. We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#78. Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
Robert Nelson
#79. Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
James Buchan
#80. Education for immediate effective consumption is more popular than ever, and nobody wants to think of the long term, or the intellectual tone of the nation.
Robertson Davies
#82. When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption
Gregg Easterbrook
#83. I checked my appearance, to make sure I was fit for public consumption.
Lee Child
#84. The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
Georges Bataille
#85. "Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting."
John Hickenlooper
#86. There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
Havelock Ellis
#87. 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.
David Brainerd
#88. While people will do a good job in preparing something for the board's consumption, they will do a great job if they know that material will be shared with the entire company.
Eric Schmidt
#89. I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.
Eve Ensler
#90. Despite the growing evidence of health benefits associated with coffee consumption, I still don't recommend my patients drink it - not because it's not healthy, but because there are even healthier choices.
Michael Greger
#91. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.
Shoshana Zuboff
#92. If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
Corey Feldman
#93. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.
Graham Hancock
#94. So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.
Jonathan Haidt
#95. Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.
William McNamara
#96. Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.
Thomas Pogge
#97. I just feel like everyone (including myself) on the planet is a little confused; we are all so driven by consumption - shopping, eating, getting high, whatever - anything to not "feel" what is really going on.
Princess Superstar
#98. The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
Yehuda Levi
#99. There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
Aleksandar Hemon
#100. I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.
Arman
