In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Raoul Vaneigem
Related We will adhere to the strategy of domestic consumption and focus on increasing consumption demand an... WEN JIABAO Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming. WANG JIANLIN High energy prices act like a consumption tax and consumption taxes eventually hurt the economy. LARRY GOLDSTEIN 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 Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, 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... FRANK LI A significant amount of consumption is driven by capital gains on some combination of both stocks an... ALAN GREENSPAN 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... BARNEY OLIVER In order to have sacred thoughts, give up the vices like consumption of non-vegetarian food, smoking... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
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