Quotes About Consumption

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.

We have 57 choices of ketchup and 500 TV channels. Very nearly everything has been disrupted in the country, from how we buy groceries to how we consume news, except for the system that produces the political leadership of the country.

As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

You have to consume Fig Newtons with either milk or an alternative milk product. It's like a conspiracy with the dairy industry. They're in cahoots.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

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

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

Products are a way to connect with - or disconnect from - who you are.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.