Top 958 Conspicuous Consumption Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

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

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

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

In a sense, the rumours suggesting I had quit were true: I had retired, but only from the personal-appearance end. I did that because I had always felt conspicuous onstage, and I'm not the sort of person who likes to be an exhibitionist.

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

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.

The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You make spiritual advancement just by eating it.

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't only law. Medical schools often have committees to evaluate cases and mitigating factors but are generally reluctant to admit ex-inmates.

What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.

In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the consumption of meat. This is more important than some fraction of us become moral saints and become vegetarians so it would be much better if we would reduce meat consumption by three quarters of each of us as an individuals would only eat one-quarter as much meat as we do now then that half of the population should become vegetarian. We should see this as a collective challenge rather than an issue about individual, moral period.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

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

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

The vast majority of Muslims view the consumption of alcohol or pork as deeply haram.

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

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

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

I've always intuitively liked the consumption-tax model.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

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

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

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

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

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.

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

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

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

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.