Top 806 Consumption Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

When CNN launched in the early 1980s, everybody said: A 24-hour news network won't work. They launched, they did ok, CNN went almost bankrupt because of the risks they had taken, they got bailed out, and 25 years later CNN is a huge global brand. I think the same is going to happen in digital. If you look at the younger generation, there is a huge consumption of digital media and almost no consumption of print or traditional television. Eventually money will follow that. It is just a question of which companies win, how long it takes to get there and what kind of model you need to apply.

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.

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

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

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

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

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

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

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

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

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

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

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.

Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

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

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

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

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

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

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

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

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

Consumption never creates wealth.

I am a weapon of massive consumption

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

Technology loves and thrives and makes gobs of money on conspicuous consumption.

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

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

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

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

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

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

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

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

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

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