Quotes About Consumption

We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

The Good thing about Money is that it can buy just anything. The bad thing about it is that it can buy 'YOU' too!

In this case, it means that, since automobiles are by far the dominant form of travel, small improvements in automobile fuel economy or toxic emissions will have a bigger effect on energy consumption or clean air than big changes in public transit.

The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.

The kinds of attention we get on social media is really very much like crack cocaine. We have social obesity I call it—we can't stop our consumption of opportunities to display ourselves and get feedback from other people.

The greatest boon of modern life is also the greatest villain: the availability of plentiful food.30,31,32,33,34,35 Or, rather, foodlike substances manufacturers concoct with the exact combinations of sugar, salt, and fat that we most desire.

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

Almost all keg beer sold in the United States is unpasteurized, which is the reason it should always be kept below 38°F (3°C).

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

What is certain is that it is sheer madness a century later, when the economy of consumption is absorbing the economy of production and the exploitation of labour power is being subsumed by the exploitation of everyday creativity.

The harder you run after time, the faster time goes: this is the law of the consumable.

The harder you run after time, the faster time goes: this is the law of the consumable. Try to stop it, and it will wear you out and age you all the more easily. Time must be caught on the wing, in the present—but the present has yet to be constructed.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume, the hellish cycle is complete.

To consume is to be consumed by inauthenticity,

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone's faces.

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.

Se huomasi, että jokin sen sisällä kului - se ihan oikeasti huomasi sen - niin kuin taskulampun paristo. Sille puhuttiin lentokentistä ja pesukoneista, mutta se pystyi ajattelemaan vain hirmumyrskyjä.

You are what you eat.