Consumption Quotations

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers...

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

I am a weapon of massive consumption

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

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.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

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.

where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.