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• A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

  Ivan Illich

  Hands, Choices, Style

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• ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Future

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• The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

  Stephen Leacock

  Silly, Beer, Men

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• To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Lag, Serious, Wages

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• It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Government, Aim, Productions

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139

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• Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources. Indeed, the process of consumption and waste seems to overlook any concern for ... biodiversity, which is so important for agriculture.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mean, Land, Agriculture

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• One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Wish, Neighbor

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

  Karl Marx

  Needs, Productions

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works 1857-61”, International Pub

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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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• Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Joints, Intimacy

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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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• The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

  Raj Patel

  Opposites, Generosity, Thrift

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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• Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

  David Cameron

  Growth, Energy, Needs

  Prime Minister’s address at the launch of the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) new Energy Efficiency Mission, February, 2013.

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• The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential

  Phil Harding

  Mean, Growth, Essentials

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• We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

  David Miliband

  Cutting, Impact, Two

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• Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

  David Suzuki

  Heart, Successful, Technology

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• If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Swings, Romance

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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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• Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.

  Linda S. Reeves

  Loss, Self, Feelings

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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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• My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Empowerment, Cinema

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• Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Fundamentals, Demand, Patterns

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• When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.

  Jason W Clay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

  F. L. Lucas

  Memories, Liars, Reading

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• When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.

  Vicente Fox

  Punishment, Drug, Humanity

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