Consumption Quotes
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
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.
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.
When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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.
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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.
The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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.
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.
