Quotes About Consumption

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

Drink accomplished what God did not. It also served to kill me; to kill. I acquired that drinker's face before I drank.

To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us by earth; it is to consume a sacrifice wherein we sustain ourselves at the expense of things.

Manger un fruit, c'est faire entrer en soi un bel objet vivant, étranger, nourri et favorisé comme nous par la terre; c'est consommer un sacrifice où nous nous préférons aux choses.

Harvard limited wine consumption to one gallon per student and three for degree takers, but banned a certain potent plum cake entirely.

Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being—for those who create and master them, at least. Now

los dramáticos contrastes de un país donde los trabajadores viven amontonados en un cuarto y sólo tienen derecho a comprar dos vestidos al año, mientras engordan con la satisfacción de saber que un proyectil soviético ha llegado a la luna»

El sexo había sido para él, igual que el alimento, algo que aplacaba una necesidad primaria y luego producía hastío

We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets.

Connoisseurs of paintings were curiously indifferent about color itself, and were seldom possessed by it. Rather, they possessed it. And they seemed to be easily seated. They were like the gourmets, who had to build castles of their food before they could eat it. They confused beauty and knowledge, passion and expertise.

The average American child has consumed 7½ pounds of chemicals by the age of five.

In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern American consumes even less if the salt content of packaged food is not included.

The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century.