Moderate Consumption

Famous quotes containing the words moderate and/or consumption:

“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)