Quotes About Consumption

You see these unsold goods taking up space in busy stores and ask yourself, 'Who would ever buy such a thing? To whose antiquated and misguided sense of taste would such a thing appeal?' To the dead, I answer! The dead are the eternally out of fashion! ... These piles of unsold goods are conclusive proof of the existence of an eternal and insatiable appetite.

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

Can you understand what the rats are saying?" "No. But I can kill them." "Why?" "Because they are never satisfied. They are like bad politicians and imperialists and rich people." "How?" "They eat up property. They eat up everything in sight. And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water,

Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.

The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is not so rewarding once it has been given.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

The problems that ail the U.S. economy and American society are one and the same: Both consume too much and refuse to make badly needed changes. This is true above all in the realm of energy.

Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.

I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.

I don't have regular TV; I have Apple TV, so I pick what I watch, which is perhaps not a good thing. I read all the big publications and also listen to a lot of podcasts.

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson's, although there it is more related to the caffeine.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.