Consumption Quotes - Page 7

• Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Fun, Play, Entertainment

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.176, North Atlantic Books

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• At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures that we can come up with right now,. with the lifestyle and consumption pattern of the Western industrial civilization, we can probably sustain about 2 billion people on this earth. We already have over 6 billion. China and India are aspiring to come on as industrial nations, aspiring to the lifestyle of the Western world, and it simply can't happen.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Civilization, People, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand. We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Hands, Fishing

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• We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Ideas, Perfect

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• Consumption never creates wealth.

  Kurt Richebacher

  Wealth

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• If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Years, Law

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• Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Free Gifts, Saving

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Cold, Violent

  On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic

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• The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior.

  Jay Baer

  Goal, Behavior, Social

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• We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Tablets, Devices, Betting

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• Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Luxury, Comfort, Add

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

  Mike Huckabee

  Drug, Pimp, Dealer

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• There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Connections, Moral

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, Risk, Incentives

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• Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Joints, Intimacy

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• People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Males, Sexuality

  "Erykah Badu’s Skin-timate VIBE Cover Revealed". www.vibe.com. June 4, 2010.

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• However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

  Walden Bello

  Humanity, Environmental, Climate

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• Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Exercise, Order, Pills

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• Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.

  Nhat Hanh

  Parent, Generations, Looks

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• Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

  Tim Jackson

  Growth, Economic, Myth

  "The end of economic growth" by Michael Bassey, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2011.

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• If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Half, Politics

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• To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Mean, Hands, Land

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

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• 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

  Essentials, Roles, Economics

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.25, NYU Press

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• We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Land, Rivers, Water

  Joseph J. Romm (2010). “Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions”, p.213, Island Press

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• If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

  Corey Feldman

  People, Needs, Problem

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