Consumption Quotes

• What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Desire
  • Labor
  • Consumption

• We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Goods
  • Manufacturing
  • Overseas

• Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.

  

  William McNamara
  • World
  • Country
  • Heart

• The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low.

  

  Bruce Ames
  • Food
  • Synthetic pesticides
  • Cancer rates

• Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

  

  Gene Baur
  • Normal
  • Meat
  • Consumption

• Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Worship
  • Sabbath
  • Pharaoh

• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Consciousness
  • Production
  • Succeeded

• Simply because you take drugs does not mean you are an expert on them. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship between drug consumption and drug knowledge: more of the former results in less of the latter. If that seems obvious, you have probably gone easy on the former, though this relationship only applies to curious people who are seriously interested in drugs.

  

  Hamilton Morris
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Drugs

• If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.

  

  Alan Thein Durning
  • Economy
  • Endure
  • Consumption

• I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Consumption

• 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
  • Today

• Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Music
  • Pop
  • Shower

• It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Economy
  • Deals
  • Obvious

• The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

  

  Sheherazade Goldsmith
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Planets

• It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

  

  Mike Crapo
  • Children
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• It is not true that on an exchange of commodities we give value for value. On the contrary, each of the two contracting parties in every case, gives a less for a greater value. … If we really exchanged equal values, neither party could make a profit. And yet, they both gain, or ought to gain. Why? The value of a thing consists solely in its relation to our wants. What is more to the one is less to the other, and vice versa. … It is not to be assumed that we offer for sale articles required for our own consumption. … We wish to part with a useless thing, in order to get one that we need; we want to give less for more. … It was natural to think that, in an exchange, value was given for value, whenever each of the articles exchanged was of equal value with the same quantity of gold. … But there is another point to be considered in our calculation. The question is, whether we both exchange something superfluous for something necessary.

  

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
  • Value
  • Gain
  • Commodities

• The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Belief
  • Consumption
  • Everlasting

• Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

  

  Mohamed El-Erian
  • Production
  • Falling
  • Participation

• The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

  

  Mike McCue
  • Devices
  • Consumption
  • Superiors

• Evolution is evolution - and it's happened before us and will continue after we're gone. But, what's taking place now is much more than change for the sake of change. The socialization of content creation, consumption and participation, is hastening the metamorphosis that transforms everyday people into participants of a powerful and valuable media literate society.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Participation

• Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

  

  Evan Dando
  • History
  • Bands
  • Consumption

• The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.

  

  William J. Bernstein
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Investment

• With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

  

  Steve Hanke
  • Consumers
  • Consumption
  • Savings

• Set realistic goals short and long term. 2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body. 3. Make a commitment to stick to your routine for four to six weeks to realize the changes and benefits, develop perseverance and create a habit. 4. Establish enthusiasm for your training, the driving force to perform successfully. 5. Ease into an appropriate training program with a wholesome, thoughtful nutritional plan: proper foods, amounts and order of consumption. 6. Be confident from the beginning that the application of these sound principles will produce the desired results.

  

  Dave Draper
  • Realizing
  • Benefits
  • Confident

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