Consumption may refer to:
- Biology
- Consumption (ecology)
- Economics
- Consumption (economics)
- Consumption function, an economic formula
- Use of final goods from a consumer until disposal
- Sociology
- Consumption (sociology)
- Other
- Consumption (disease), an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis
- Ingestion of food and drink
Famous quotes containing the word consumption:
“The Cairo conference ... is about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)
“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)