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.
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage. . . the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods. [. . . ]Our present tax system. . . reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.