Quotes About Consumption

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I spend most of my money in Prada or plane tickets.

One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide of junk. This means fighting corporate power, changing political outcomes and challenging the growth-based, world-consuming system we call capitalism.

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

Even the ways we don't eat are based in class. The middle class don't eat in support groups. The poor can't afford not to eat at all. The rich hire someone to not eat with them in private.

Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

The shelf life of a baguette is about six hours, max.)

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Whatever you have, spend less.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

that most embarrassing of statistical fictions, the commercial reader (not you, of course; not me), who presumably consumes texts only for story, is assumed to stand deaf to style, and is thought to applaud only the endlessly repeated pornographies of action and passion that, for all their violences, still manage to pander to an astonishingly untroubled acceptance of the personal and political status quo.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Don't hate me for filling up your feeds. Don't hate me for the brands I convinced you to buy, the movies I goaded you to see. Don't resent me for the gossip I dropped, breadcrumb-like, for you to devour, obsess over, believe. I was what you needed. I was your guiding light, people. That was why they called me an influencer

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.