Consumption Quotes
Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relatio...
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The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of l...
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The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he becam...
Show MoreWell, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying...
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The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...
Show MoreWe are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which former...
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Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...
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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...
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If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr...
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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...
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Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in orde...
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...
Show MoreIt is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...
Show MoreIt is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...
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