Quotes About Consumption

mass market consumption offers the facade of social equality without forcing society to go through the hard work of redistributing wealth. Low prices lead consumers to think they can get what they want without necessarily giving them what they want - or need. The ancient Roman phrase for this is panem et circenses, bread and circuses, the art of plying citizens with pleasures to distract them from pain.

Americans pay less for food than do citizens of any other developed nation.

Encontramos, na angústia dos que habitam regiões insólitas, o aspecto demoníaco da vida, mas também sua insignificância, o que explica que ela seja privilégio dos medíocres. Somente estes últimos vivem a uma temperatura normal; os outros, um fogo devorante os consome.

On voudrait parfois être cannibale, moins pour le plaisir de dévorer tel ou tel que  pour celui de le vomir.

Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.

Look at a railway stall; you see books of every color—blue, yellow, crimson, "ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted," on every subject, in every style, of every opinion, with every conceivable difference, celestial or sublunary, maleficent, beneficent—but all small. People take their literature in morsels, as they take sandwiches on a journey.

Moral philosophy and political economy both condemn the individual who consumes without producing; who fills a place on the earth but does not shed upon it either good or evil--for evil is sometimes good the meaning of which is not at once made manifest.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

We can protect life, practice generosity, behave responsibly, and consume mindfully.

Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.

What we consume is not just what we put into our body, but what we put into our heart and our consciousness. Eat wisely.

My eyes had actual tears, and I thought: It's like this play is happening TO me. Inside me. I wanted to own it. I wanted to eat it, as

It's hard to attain that "nothing-missing" feeling on a steady diet of television.

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model--whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret.

Reality shows take up so much programming. They take up slots from scripted shows that could be about something.

I find reality television to be so delectable.

Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

Brands are in your face 24/7; I'm sure you've consumed a couple brands today. So it's fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.