In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.


Raoul Vaneigem

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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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High energy prices act like a consumption tax and consumption taxes eventually hurt the economy.
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A thirty-two-ounce soda and a tank of gas is America distilled to its seminal fluids.
RICHARD MANNING
China's overall crude oil consumption is about 8% or 9% of world consumption and per capita consumpt...
ZHENG JINGPING
Truth is commodity in political consumption.
TOBA BETA
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption...
NOAM CHOMSKY
You can't rage against the machine through rebellious consumption.
DAVID MCRANEY
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resou...
JOHN SULSTON
Assumption is the biggest human consumption.
TASNEEM HAMEED
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
That has considered the decline in cigarette consumption and production.
ANGGITO ABIMANYU
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL
The consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables skyrocketed.
LYN HALVORSON
The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.
WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. SCHUMACHER
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumpti...
THICH NHAT HANH
The recovery in employment and incomes should continue bolstering consumption ahead.
RYUTARO KONO
A Quantitative RiskBenefit Analysis of Changes in Population Fish
Consumption
JOSHUA COHEN
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.
TOBA BETA
A recovery of private consumption is on the cards this year.
ALEXANDER KOCH
In most countries around the world the consumption of infringing products is not a crime.
ERIC SMITH
Private consumption is likely to remain weak.
JUERGEN MICHELS
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CHRIS JORDAN
It's February bills, not February consumption.
JUDY MOSS
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Consumption of risky foods declined significantly in 2002 compared to 1998. However, in the future t...
ERICA WEIS
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumpt...
JOSE MUJICA
A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumpt...
ADAM DAVIDSON
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and the...
NAJIB RAZAK
The real estate market has been an underlying source of support for private consumption. As that mar...
BRIAN DOLAN
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL
Life is not only for consumption but for contribution.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I have penciled in a bit of pickup in private consumption because of wage increases.
DIRK SCHUMACHER
It was not a surge in personal income that gave rise to the consumption boost in the fourth quarter....
CHRISTIAN WELLER
What Canada needs is a shift in focus away from consumption and towards savings and investment,
DON DRUMMOND
Bad debt is debt that is used to enhance consumption.
GARY SCHATSKY
Consumption should increase next year and contribute to growth.
CHRISTIAN JASPERNEITE
This project is considered to be one of the most important projects in the Kingdom and will fill the...
ALI KARIMI
The average American's real income and consumption is the highest it's ever been.
EDWARD YARDENI
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we ha...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT
China's copper consumption could be healthier than expected.
GU YUAN
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quar...
NOAM CHOMSKY
Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relat...
WENDELL BERRY
In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and co...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we...
ELISE BOULDING
We can't tell you how many would have been slaughtered for human consumption.
GARY LITTLE
In 1972, the Food and Drug Administration came through and said the building was too old to grind gr...
RONALD DAWSON
You have to build a mass market for consumer consumption before people think about ownership models.
KEVIN CONROY
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure
THORSTEIN VEBLEN
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING
The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.
ROBERT ZUBRIN
The worst in retail sales should be behind us. A recovery of private consumption is in the cards thi...
ALEXANDER KOCH
Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.
DIETER ZETSCHE
Indian authorities have fully cleared the wheat for human consumption.
PETER MCBRIDE
This highlights a re-accelerating economy led by consumption and investment.
DONG TAO
It's recommended that health inspectors classify this food before it's made available for human cons...
ANDREW TITUS
People need to be more aware of their water consumption.
TONY HAFFER
It's a marvelous campaign, but it didn't increase milk consumption.
ROBERT HEANEY
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.
JOHN BALDACCI
Investment has been very strong and consumption remains very strong.
JOSEPH RAMOS
Consumption per capita in our categories in developing markets is about one-third that of developed ...
A.G. LAFLEY
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for ...
MARC BEKOFF
The Germans have a different consumption mentality: They don't get into debt.
HUBERTUS PELLENGAHR
Currently the consumer price index is okay and we also want to boost consumption.
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
JIMMY CARTER
There's no evidence that there is a risk of getting the influenza from consumption [of fowl].
CAROLINE DEWAAL
There's no evidence that there is a risk of getting the influenza from consumption [of fowl].
CAROLINE SMITH DEWAAL
The big theme in the fourth quarter is going to be consumption spending, that is the real driver.
ELISABETH DENISON
The key to bolstering domestic consumption is to shore up citizens' personal incomes.
QU HONGBIN
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter i...
PAUL HAWKEN
To be animalistic in nature simply means to think more of consumption rather than production.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
MAURICE STRONG
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tend...
RAOUL VANEIGEM
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocen...
RICHARD REEVES
This is the most efficient module on the market, with very low current consumption.
ANDREW PAROLIN
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
EVAN DANDO
Further improvement in earnings and additional declines in the unemployment rate is likely to boost ...
JOSEPH ABATE
However we can decrease our consumption of energy is where America needs to go.
JO SANDERS
Over the last five or 10 years, I think we've seen a sea change in people's consumption of alcohol
CARY COOPER
Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.
STEVEN MAGEE
The baton of global consumption is being passed from the U.S. consumer base to the millions of consu...
JOSEPH QUINLAN
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and co...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.
NORMAN FOSTER
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of a...
HAVELOCK ELLIS
[Much of that imported oil leaves the country soon after it arrives.] The economy is growing at just...
MICHAEL CHAMBERS
We're happy to do our part to fight America's oil consumption.
CHARLES BIELER
Consumption in the world is going up. It's supply and demand right now. We're enduring it just like ...
BRIAN BOWMAN
It's as much for internal [Republican] consumption as it is for public consumption. They have a very...
GEOFF GARIN
Lower annual pay and lower pay growth can flow through the economy, because it also means lower cons...
BEADSIE WOO
For North Asia, Korea is the prime candidate to see consumption-led demand in 2006, given the turnar...
IRENE CHEUNG
These new policies indicate that consumption of China's domestic drugs will be on the steady increas...
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A significant amount of consumption is driven by capital gains on some combination of both stocks an...
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We will see stronger consumption. It needs a brighter outlook, and that has clearly materialized in ...
KLAUS LIEBSCHER
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matte...
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