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Quotes About Production

Today, Israel has no producing oil wells.
~ John Price
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
~ John Robbins
that meat production is the second or third largest contributor to environmental problems at every level and at every scale, from global to local. It is a primary culprit in land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, species extinction, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.
~ John Robbins
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
~ John Ruskin
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.
~ John Ruskin
I]t invites us to think by not thinking for us; this is not to be dismissed as an absence of thought (or 'moral tone' for that matter), but as an absence full of potential presence, which the reader is invited to actively produce.
~ John Storey
In 1993, three years before OxyContin came out, the DEA allowed pharmaceutical companies to manufacture 3,520 kilograms of oxycodone. In 2007, the DEA signed off on the production of seventy thousand kilograms of oxycodone. Almost twenty times the amount manufactured just fourteen years earlier. Twenty times.
~ John Temple
And it wasn't just oxycodone. Between 1996 and 2007, the DEA had nearly quadrupled the production of hydrocodone, allowed manufacturers to produce almost ten times the amount of fentanyl, and hiked the quota of hydromorphone by four and a half times. Despite its impact on public health, the quota-setting process was conducted in secret.
~ John Temple
Ritual regulation of production and belligerence means that domestication has become the decisive factor. "The emergence of systematic warfare, fortifications, and weapons of destruction," says Hassan, "follows the path of agriculture.
~ John Zerzan
Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources but because the purpose of capitalist production is exchange value not use value, profit not people.
~ Ellen Meiksins Wood
Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.
~ Ellie Goulding
Capital, land, labour and entrepreneurship are indispensable factors of production. Likewise, self-esteem and self-confidence are prerequisites for achievement of genuine success. Yes! for until and unless you value yourself and believe in yourself as well as in your ability, you will hardly achieve genuine success. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril ' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Indolence saves us from prolixity and thereby from the shamelessness inherent in production.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Hence we are the victims of an illusion which leads us to believe we have ourselves produced what has been imposed upon us externally.
~ Émile Durkheim
Moral philosophy and political economy both condemn the individual who consumes without producing; who fills a place on the earth but does not shed upon it either good or evil--for evil is sometimes good the meaning of which is not at once made manifest.
~ balzac honore de xi
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
~ Barbara Kruger
The textile industry was the automobile industry of the Middle Ages,
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
When death slowed production, goods became scarce and prices soared. In France the price of wheat increased fourfold by 1350. At the same time the shortage of labor brought the plague's greatest social disruption—a concerted demand for higher wages. Peasants as well as artisans, craftsmen, clerks, and priests discovered the lever of their own scarcity.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Comparing the aftermaths of the Black Death and of World War I, James Westfall Thompson found all the same complaints: economic chaos, social unrest, high prices, profiteering, depraved morals, lack of production, industrial indolence, frenetic gaiety, wild expenditure, luxury, debauchery, social and religious hysteria, greed, avarice, maladministration, decay of manners.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
As early as August 24 Sukhomlinov, the War Minister who had not bothered to build arms factories because he did not believe in firepower, wrote General Yanushkevitch, the beardless Chief of Staff: "In God's name, issue orders for gathering up the rifles. We have sent 150,000 to the Serbs, our reserves are nearly used up and factory production is feeble.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
We had a solid structure and format in place, seasoned people involved in the production of the show, and audience popularity that was unprecedented. We knew we were onto something, but we had no idea that it would last as long as it did. That surprised all of us--but it was a wonderful surprise.
~ barker bob ii
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~ Barry Commoner
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
~ Barry Commoner