Quotes About Consumption

If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Probably to the filthy rich, toilets are disposable. Mario and Luigi are always standing by to switch a new one in after each use.

Santa mediated magically between parent and child--between the buyer and the recipient of the gifts. His presence was what took the gift out of the realm of commerce--in the eyes of parents, perhaps, as well as children. To phrase this in a more contemporary fashion, we might say that Santa 'mystified' consumption. He also mystified production and distribution.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you.

The reason Americans favor milk chocolate over dark is because Milton Hershey got his bars into enough American mouths to establish our collective taste.

it allows us to go to Walmart and more easily "ad-match

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.

According to Green Cross Switzerland, 9 trillion gallons of water are used annually in textile production around the world. Most of it is dumped untreated.3

It is estimated that if everyone on the planet adopted a Western lifestyle, we would need five planets to support us. Around 20% of people living in the wealthy Western world consume 86% of the world' s resources. The world' s wealthiest 225 people have combined assets roughly equal to the annual income of the poorest 2. 5 billion people.