Consumption Quotes

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.

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

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

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.

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

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.

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.

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

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

Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

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