Consumption Quotes - Page 17

• About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

  John S. Watson

  Heart, Years, Oil

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• There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Propaganda, Profit

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• 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

  Thinking, House, Employment

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• We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mean, Views, Niche

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• My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

  Tino Sehgal

  Children, Father, Pakistan

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• 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

  Zest, Energy, Groups

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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• When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

  George Will

  Merit, Amendments, Should

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• You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, Might, Buying

  "Innovative Consumption". www.newyorker.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

  David Suzuki

  Hurt, Energy, Packaging

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• ...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one.

  Ari Fleischer

  Believe, Blessed, Goal

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• Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

  Rachel Nichols

  Holiday, Night, Return

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• Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

  John Bunyan

  Wise, Men, Together

  John Bunyan (2014). “'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Opportunity, Class

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• There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Fiction, No Excuses

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.81, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Chance, Planets

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• For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

  Tim Jackson

  Growth, The End Of The Day, Prosperity

  "Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet". Book by Tim Jackson, 2009.

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• The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fishing, Practice

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• The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the color of him and the texture. It's amazing! He's like an artifact. It's an amazing head to draw and I have to think it's got to be part of his success. It's ready-made for public consumption.

  Barry Blitt

  Thinking, Color, Eyebrows

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• As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.

  Bryan Fuller

  Mirrors, Young Love, Opera

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food as the dollar value we attribute to your income would buy in the United States. But then you can buy much more by way of services than you could buy with this PPP equivalent in the United States." But what consolation is this? The poor do not buy services - they are services, on their luckier days.

  Thomas Pogge

  United States, Dollars, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Exercise, Play, Car

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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