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


Susan George


#consumption #contribute #lot #people #production

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.


Manuel Puig


#disposable #fine #growing #growing up #i

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.


Maurice Strong


#damaging #environmental #geared #less #lifestyles

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


Raoul Vaneigem


#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.


Jennifer Birkett


#consumption #obscene #order #art

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.


Elise Boulding


#frugality #happiness #beauty

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.


Jerry Brown


#control #corporations #destroying #division #entertainment

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.


Raoul Vaneigem


#consumption #daily #daily life #economic #economic system

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.


Evan Dando


#bands #consumption #dig #even #history

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.


Thorstein Veblen


#consumption #gentleman #goods #leisure #means






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