Top 1200 Mass Consumption Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.

Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.

The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.

We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

?Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools?not weapons of mass destruction.?

When we lessen lectin consumption, the gut wall reseals and the stimulus to store fat is removed. Lectins no longer bind to insulin receptors, and we no longer store fat aggressively. Weight loss invariably follows.

I am not looking or thinking that every move of mine will generate mass hysteria.

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

I have a pretty high metabolism rate. So I tend to lose muscle mass if I am not working out.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

In America the Jewish community is very strong. It controls much of the economy. Certainly the mass media.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience... you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

GDP has been a con perpetrated upon the poor of the world: a measure of economic activity and not of actual wealth. What it masks is the way in which we transform their natural capital into our consumption through international rules that regard the ecosystem services upon which they rely as mere externalities.

I did my BMS from Bhavan's College in Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication.

The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory herbivores; our enzymes evolved to digest meat, whose consumption aided higher encephalization and better physical growth.

We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding that sense of our original being. We fight ourselves, repeating other people's games and being fed their appetites and their amusements.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

It is important to launch a mass and society-wide struggle to drastically increase the production of consumer goods.

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

There's a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There's a mass of people who are broken.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.