Quotes About Consumption

There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.

Mrs. Watson feeds me 'round the clock and I haven't turned anything down. But at the rate I'm going, within the week I'll reach Maximum Tolerable Chins. Then I'll be obliged to give up this reckless dining.

Sweet things placed before her usually disappeared: Hunger wasn't necessary; cake tasted just as good accompanied by preoccupation, concern, or even boredom.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Emphasizing a lifestyle based on consumption is the ultimate violence against poor countries.

And books -- she swallows like dumplings.

Die Krebszellen waren Menschen in Kleinausgabe. Alles fressen, was ihnen in den Weg kommt, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste, auch in Kauf nehmend, vor lauter Gier, dass irgendwann der Wirt nicht mehr ist.

Es ist hell. Es ist Nacht. Es braucht nicht viel. Ich brauche nichts mehr. Die Dinge quellen aus der Tonne, obszön sieht das aus, all die unnützen Sachen, Gier im Kleinen, so fängt das Elend an, mehr zu wollen, als man brauchen kann.

As a society we have grown to prefer the easy over the difficult, the quick over the slow, the cheap over the costly—and those choices are not often to the benefit of nature. Lord

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.