
Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
A collection of quotes on the topic of consumption, product, production, productivity.
Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
Source: Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 10.
“No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.”
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 12.
Responding to Republican criticism of his energy policy (5 August 2008) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/05/sitroom.03.html
2008
Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
Vol. II, Ch. IV, p. 123.
(Buch II) (1893)
Speech in the House of Lords (29 April 1879), reported in The Times (30 April 1879), p. 8.
1870s
Die traurige Wissenschaft, aus der ich meinem Freunde einiges darbiete, bezieht sich auf einen Bereich, der für undenkliche Zeiten als der eigentliche der Philosophie galt, seit deren Verwandlung in Methode aber der intellektuellen Nichtachtung, der sententiösen Willkür und am Ende der Vergessenheit verfiel: die Lehre vom richtigen Leben. Was einmal den Philosophen Leben hieß, ist zur Sphäre des Privaten und dann bloß noch des Konsums geworden, die als Anhang des materiellen Produktionsprozesses, ohne Autonomie und ohne eigene Substanz, mit geschleift wird.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), Dedication
Minima Moralia (1951)
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 14.
§ 50
2010s, 2015, Laudato si' : Care for Our Common Home
Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions (1949)
On the coronavirus and environmental crises. Cited in Pope salutes 'saints next door' in fight against coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/pope-salutes-saints-next-door-fight-against-coronavirus-hyprocrisy in the Guardian. (8 April 2020)
2010s, 2020
Source: Society of the Spectacle (1967), Ch. 7, sct. 168.
Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”
Source: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Infidelity is consumption of the soul.”
Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly quoted in The Latter-Day Saints' Millenial Star, Vol. 70 https://books.google.com/books?id=eItJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=He+that+cheats+another+is+a+knave;+but+he+that+cheats+himself+is+a+fool.&source=bl&ots=WBAQiPjQX6&sig=WLEdKN2_kXPXj8jZALKCp2dguaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXmNeF_7HMAhUH42MKHdySDgsQ6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q=fool&f=false
Source: The circuit flow of money, 1922, p. 460; Early descriptions of the circular flow of income
Buddhist Economics
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
The White Devil (1612)
Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 4
Source: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93
Source: "The limitations of scientific method in economics", 1924, p. 129 (2009 edition)
September 25, 2009
Friday Night SmackDown
“There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.”
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter VIII, On Taxes, Foot note 1, p. 94
Source: The Look of Maps (1952), p. 17; as cited in: Kirk Patrick Goldsberry (2007) Real-time Traffic Maps. p. 23-24
7:30 Report interview, May 8, 2006
Paul Ehrlich, People should produce far fewer children, or expect the worst http://www.haaretz.co.il/1.1875624 (Dec. 2012), Haaretz
The Great Sentinel http://books.google.com/books?id=6XRDAAAAYAAJ&q=galloping in Young India 13 October 1921
1920s
an attempt to describe symptoms in poetry, while studying medicine at Stanford University in 1924
as quoted in Love at Goon Park https://books.google.ca/books?id=obODAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=%22though+suffering+from+paresis%22&source=bl&ots=KLAHZqLzIR&sig=7U5NnYVatwD7LVa9ot5hrtfh828&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii-YTTysTQAhWhgVQKHfY3CKEQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22though%20suffering%20from%20paresis%22&f=false, by Deborah Blum.
"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 5 : A Plan for Deferred Pay, Family, Allowances and a Cheap Ration
Page 201. The second word above was printed as "trying" in the second edition, but was printed as "refusing" in the first edition, page 78, and in the third edition, page 230. "Refusing" is consistent with Satin's argument.
New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society (1978)
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter II. Ancient Oriental Urban cultures
Piketty, Thomas, and Gabriel Zucman. Capital is back: Wealth-income ratios in rich countries, 1700-2010 http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/PikettyZucman2013WP.pdf. Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2013.
Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. The political economy of participatory economics. Princeton University Press, 1991. p. 3
Cognitive Surplus : Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010)
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 16
“ Why Vegan-Feminist? http://caroljadams.com/why-vegan-feminist/”, in caroljadams.com (2015). Retrieved on 18 June 2016.
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand (2002)
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter XV, p. 138
“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 57,
"Got Milk? Might Not Be Doing You Much Good", in The New York Times (17 November 2014) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/upshot/got-milk-might-not-be-doing-you-much-good.html?_r=0
Source: 1960s, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, 1966, p. 9-10 as cited in: Mark W. W. McElroy, J.M.L. M. L. van van Engelen (2012) Corporate Sustainability Management.
Source: The circuit flow of money, 1922, p. 264
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 3
Meditation One: The One and the Multiple: a priori conditions of any possible ontology
Being and Event (1988)
Source: 2002, Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002), p. 247.
On vegetarianism. “Lamb of God interview,” by Peta2.com, on YouTube (19 February 2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D91k1aOy1tY.
Arthur Young (1791), Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: : undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France, Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=WLcFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA344, p. 344; Cited in: Jackson Spielvogel (2011), Western Civilization: Alternate Volume: Since 1300, p. 296
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 77.
" The Death of Privacy and Why We Should Welcome It http://liftconference.com/death-privacy-and-why-we-should-welcome-it," January 18, 2009. (Remarks made during the Lift Conference)
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 12.
A Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Mankind at the Turning Point, (1974), p. 69; Quoted in: B. Goudzwaard, Jerzy Śliziński, H. M. de Lange (1995) Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care With a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery. p. 115
“The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.”
The Value of Nothing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P03nNeYiJo
Letter to Lieutenant Governor Levi Lincoln of Massachusetts (November 13, 1808) concerning a petition from the island of Nantucket for food during the American embargo.
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
"The Self-Poisoning of the Open Society"
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 17
An Appeal to the Young (1880)
2000s, "Why can't we be more like Finland?" (2005)
David Lance Goines, 1993, The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960's, Ten Speed Press, p. 49.
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 225.
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 3 : Our Output Capacity and the National Income
Interview with Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour http://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/interview/acting-clear-vision-obg-talks-prime-minister-abdullah-ensour-0, Oxford Business Group.