quotes about Consumption
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Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.
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Joint consumption doesn’t create intimacy,
-- Charles Eisenstein -
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
-- Evan Dando -
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The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place
-- Ivan Illich -
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139
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That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
-- Jock Sturges -
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Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
-- Kathleen Battle -
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
-- Mike McCueSource : "Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web Soon to Look More Like Magazines". Interview with Robert Hof, www.forbes.com. September 12, 2011.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
-- Noam Chomsky -
It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.
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Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.
-- Peter Saville -
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The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.
-- Raj PatelSource : Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta
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The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.
-- Raj Patel -
I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.
-- Stephen Colbert -
where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...
-- Thomas Malthus -
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I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
-- Tim Gunn -
The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].
-- Lucrecia Martel -
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Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
-- Peter Joseph -
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.
-- Shantanu Narayen