Quotes About Consumption

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Soda is the worst thing.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Humans metabolize their purchases very quickly, even if it seemed worth it for any number of reasons when you first bought it. After some time passes, people will go back to feeling the baseline feelings they had previously felt about themselves, no matter how shiny the object, the hair, or the experience.

I'll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I'll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.

You don't necessarily know you're consuming sugar when you're using store-bought salad dressing, or store-bought tomato sauce, or healthy granola bars. It's added to all these foods.

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

Do you know how much coal China burns? In 2013, we already were burning 3.6 billion tons. And do you know how much coal the rest of the world burns? We burn more than the rest of the world combined.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.

They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

Luckily, I don't have a sweet tooth nor I eat rice.

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

Other than things like toothpaste, I don't buy anything that isn't sold to me.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.