Consumption Quotes - Page 2

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, Ends, Sole

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.8.

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• You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Population, Force, Distracted

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• The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Addiction, Ownership, Mass Consumption

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• Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

  Alfred Marshall

  Negative, May, Productions

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Advertising, Mass Consumption

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Order, House, Waste

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• In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

  Don DeLillo

  Meaningful, Literature, May

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

  Neal Barnard

  Meat Consumption, Hands, Use

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• Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Gentleman, Leisure

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1

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• 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

  Drinking, Community, Alcohol

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• 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.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Mother, Australia, Long

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Choices, Gasoline

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• In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Kings, Equality, House

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.141, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Growth, Balance

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• Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

  John Shadegg

  Years, Growth, Chinese

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• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Energy, World, Matter

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• 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

  Japan, Views, Asia

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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• 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 Dean Crapo

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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• 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

  Artist, Practice, One For Me

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• Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

  Bill Watterson

  Christmas, Xmas, Beer

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• 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

  Civilization, Alcohol, Poison

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• With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Goal

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

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• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Men, Waiting

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• Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Cancer, Osteoporosis, Smoking

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