Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.