Quotes About Consumption

You're going to eat him alive and never even notice.

Emptiness and loneliness consume you. Physically you're alive, but mentally you're dying inside.

Buying is an extremely satisfying, macho act

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

information is a form of garbage and yet we're oddly addicted to cramming more of it in our brains.

glazed eyes staring stupid looking at nothing and seeing everything born of and into ignorance what society dictates we consume cattle gathering around learning devices called television

we lose more and more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily; the beaten generation indeed, self-inflicted wounds, and our elected officials keep watch over us intent on keeping us content and complacent, so we willingly sell ourselves out for more tax breaks and we continue to consume and destroy ourselves while watching each other with suspicion.

Expiration dates for bottled water is actually for the bottle, not for the water in it.

Doritos can be made without the powder and taste exactly the same but the company intentionally adds it because they believe it adds to the Doritos experience.

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

Sixty-two per cent of Australians believe they cannot afford to buy everything they really need. When we consider that Australia is one of the world's richest countries and that Australians today have incomes three times higher than in 1950, it is remarkable that so many people feel their incomes are inadequate.

bolted down his blood and gorged on him in lumps, leaving the body utterly lifeless, eaten up...

Fifty years ago, when the human population was about 3 billion, we were using about 70 percent of the Earth's annual capacity each year. That broke 100 percent by 1980 and stands at about 150 percent now, meaning that we need one and one-half Earths to regenerate what we use in a year. As the authors of this now annual study note, we have a total of just one Earth available.

A substantial fraction of the atoms in the body of a typical physicist were once in the form of pizza.)

Energy is food. Most people on earth feed on each other's energy, all of the time, seven days a week. The more energy you have, the more interested parties there will be in having lunch.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Capital creates space-time.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.