Consumption Quotes - Page 17

• We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding that sense of our original being. We fight ourselves, repeating other people's games and being fed their appetites and their amusements.

  James O'Dea

  Fighting, Games, Organization

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• 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

  Views, One Day, Too Much

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Two, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.And it reflects American's consumption ideas rather than its savings ideas.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, Ideas, Buying

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• It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Athlete, Osteoporosis

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• Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.

  Willie Nelson

  Horse, Animal, Would Be

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• The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

  Adrian Grenier

  Mouths, Problem, Modern

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• In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.

  Brendan Brazier

  Simple, Numbers, America

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• The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

  Tim Jackson

  Country, Growth, Quality

  Tim Jackson (2016). “Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow”, p.21, Taylor & Francis

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• All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

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• The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Drama, Finals, Economic

  "Innovation by Demand". Book by Andrew McMeekin, p. 131, 2002.

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• Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.

  Tim Jackson

  Commodity Prices, Rights, Fishing

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• Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Holiday, Mean

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• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Needs, Paper

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• Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

  Nhat Hanh

  Doe

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some repair work was being done the craftsmen saw that the work on the other side of the plaster, the part not visible to the human eye was done with the same kind of craftsmanship that was done on what was visible and observable. And the explanation for that is that the work that Christians do is not just for human consumption, but it is also for the eyes of God.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Eye, Excellence

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.

  Ariel Sharon

  Mean, Opportunity, Land

  Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff (2002). “Warrior: An Autobiography”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.  That's not gallons, but barrels.  Small changes in buying habits can make big differences.  Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Small Changes, Oil

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

  Dennis Lehane

  Lying, Home, Unconditional Love

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• ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Drawing, Vision

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• The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.

  Willy Brandt

  Order, Organization, Oil

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