Quotes About Consumption

The mega-technological fantasy of glorified and constant consumption in controlled and utopian worlds which prepare people psychologically for life in denatured artificial environments has never been more popular.

If you really want me to give up my car or my air conditioner, you'd better prove to me first that the earth would otherwise be uninhabitable, Dr. Lave says. Me is you, I presume, whereas you refers to them. You as in me—that is, me, me, me—certainly strike a hard bargain. Uninhabitable the world has to get before you rein in your requirements

El capitalismo no es un mero sistema económico, sino que posee una visión totalizadora y articulada del hombre, una antropología corrosiva que se funda no sólo en la liberalización del consumo, sino también de las costumbres

Das Lesen war weder Arbeit noch Hobby, es folgte keinem bestimmten Interesse. Lesen war ein Zustand, in dem die Zeit verstrich, weil sie nicht anders konnte, während Adas Verstand in Nahrung eingelegt wurde, so dass seine hektische Gier in ein gleichmäßiges Einsaugen und Verwerten überging.

One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

And so kissing her became a matter of self-preservation. It was simple. If he did not kiss her now, if he did not consume her, he would die. It sounded melodramatic, but at the moment he would have sworn it to be true. The hand of desire twisting around his gut would burst into flame and take him along with it.

e-da-cious (adjective). Devoted to eating, voracious.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

I think there's a chance that aliens might just see us as beef cattle, so that's us done. Whether they would inhabit us in that way is pretty fanciful because they'd probably just get from us what they could, and then I just see us as fast food.

We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

I watch everything online... I consume so much media through Instagram and Facebook, too.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

People go through life eating lamb chops and breaking their mother's hearts.

we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth...

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

As I lose myself in the heart of certain children, I have lost myself in the sea many times. Ignorant of the water I go seeking a death full of light to consume me. — Federico García Lorca, from "Gacela De La Huida (Garcela Of The Flight)," The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca . Trans. Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili. (New Directions; unknown edition May 17, 2005) Originally published December 3rd 1915.

No hay más hondo dolor, pena más honda, que a la rosa, por rosa, la consuma.

Hoy en Estados Unidos se están produciendo y masacrando al año por este sistema de producción desalmada 50 millones de vacas, terneros y cerdos, 200 millones de pavos y 6.000 millones de pollos para que los dueños de los Burger King, los McDonald's y los Wendy's inflen sus bolsas y los comedores de carne, negros y blancos, cristianos y musulmanes, tengan carburante para sus almas inmortales.

Could you imagine people eating a painting -- if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

The truth, in plain terms, is this: That men consume cloth and corn by fire or by using them, and that the effect is the same as regards money, but not as regards wealth, for it is precisely in the use of commodities that wealth or material prosperity consists.