Consumption Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Character, Government

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.106, Coventry House Publishing

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• There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

  Eric Schlosser

  Strong, Children, Real

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Income, Debt

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes debt deflation and shrinks markets. If you pay the banks, you have less to spend on goods and services.

  Michael Hudson

  Fire, Debt, Pay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Use, Individual, Articles

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.398

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• Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

  Valerie Steele

  Fashion, Art, Self

  Valerie Steele (2005). “Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion”, Charles Scribners Sons/Reference

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• What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Nature, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?

  Donald E. Westlake

  Prayer, War, Animal

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• Just plain logic says that the war on drugs does not work. It absolutely does not work. We have this highly addictive legal drug called tobacco which has never resulted in people being sent to prison, but there has been a massive reduction in its consumption simply because responsible adults looking at their own bodies have said they don't want to do that to themselves.

  Graham Hancock

  War, People, Drug

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• There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

  David Ricardo

  Errors, Supposing That, Greater

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• 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.

  Thomas Malthus

  Encouragement, Giving, Balance

  Thomas Robert Malthus, Edward Anthony Wrigley, David Souden (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2”

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• Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

  Thomas Malthus

  Looks, Adam, Labourers

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406

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• I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption.

  Haruki Murakami

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Wisdom, Reality, Political

  Jean Baptiste Say (1936). “Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

  Cornel West

  Meaningful, Numbers, People

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.376, Basic Books

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• In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Saving, Employment

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• Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Taken, Technology, Usa

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• I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

  Susan George

  Strong, Would Be, Carbon

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• Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Income, Uniforms, Taxes

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• The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.

  William J. Bernstein

  Couple, Use, Definitions

  "A Young Person's Guide To Getting Rich Slowly". Interview with Robin Young, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

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• By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fashion, Machines, Leisure

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "Myth of Megalopolis", 1961.

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• Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

  Wen Jiabao

  Innovation, Saving, Regulation

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• Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, Decision, Energy

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

  Susan George

  People, Productions

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