#consume

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#alleviating #burden #commitment #comprehensive #conservation

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#consumer #something #sore #who

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#consume #fretting #our #tomorrows #yesterdays

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#countries #crime #effort #growing #multilateral

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#consume #how #know #live #manipulate

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#government #many #more #much #people

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status. ↗

— Susan George

#consume #downgrade #going #more #more and more

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol. ↗

— Susan George

#automobiles #build #carbon #consume #consumption

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#consumerism #crowds #extreme #go #hate