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.
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry. . . To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste. ' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. . . . When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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.
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.
The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.