Consumption Quotes
On buying, using, and wearing out.
This collection uses "consumption" in several distinct ways: booming consumer spending, everyday diet and fibre intake, rising gas usage, and even the old poetic term once used for a wasting lung disease. It pairs well with our Big quotes on scale and growth.
TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
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We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we're failing to distinguish between production and consumption.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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See related material in our Art quotes, or browse Advertising quotes for more on consumer culture.
