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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

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

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

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

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

Consumption never creates wealth.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

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].

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

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

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.

I am a weapon of massive consumption

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

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

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.