#consumption

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#annihilation #annual #consumption #energy #energy consumption

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ↗

— Richard Reeves

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Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness... Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our consciousness individually and collectively. Our collective consciousness has so much violence, fear, craving, and hatred in it, it can manifest in wars and bombs. The bombs are the product of our fear... Removing the bombs is not enough. Even if we could transport all the bombs to a distant planet, we would still not be safe, because the roots of the wars and the bombs are still intact in our collective consciousness. Transforming the toxins in our collective consciousness is the true way to uproot war (72-73). ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#mindfulness #war #diet

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #consumption #impact #life #trend

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

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