Consumption Quotes

• 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
  • Reason
  • Hungry
  • Obesity

• 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

• We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Economy
  • Consequence
  • Emissions

• 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

• In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

  

  Eugene Linden
  • Faith
  • Economists
  • Freedoms

• Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making.

  

  Michelle Grabner
  • Relationship
  • Become
  • Contemporary

• 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

• Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Fun
  • Entertainment
  • Consumption

• Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.

  

  Norbert Reithofer
  • Statistics
  • CO2-emitting
  • Motor Transport

• While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur.

  

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau
  • Practice
  • Producer
  • Consumption

• Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Listening
  • Create
  • Human Beings

• In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and day out.

  

  Michael Moss
  • Aspect
  • Increase
  • Obesity

• I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Secret

• Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.

  

  Mitchell Joachim
  • American
  • Favorite
  • Exposed

• Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Tax
  • Income
  • Consumption

• Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Audience

• Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.

  

  Sue Gardner
  • Internet
  • Censorship
  • Consumption

• Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Intimacy
  • Consumption

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