Quotes About Consumption

Reading should be like eating, we should have the dessert as well as the substantials. It would be a great mistake to eat dessert alone, and it is certainly a mistake to read light, frothy reading matter alone.

Have you noticed that while corporations sell you junk drinks, artisans sell you cheese and wine?

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin. People

The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read. Yet everyone was so eager to become familiar with every fact that they read every freshly printed document and listened to every radio station as if the great answer was going to be revealed to them in the next bulletin.

we are led to the excessive use of specific products. This concentration is harmful.

the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

Consider that transgenic-GMO eaters will eat non-GMOs, but not the reverse.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

partake of this body

who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself

SPAM is my god. It's the only deity that can be eaten raw or fried. The stuff of Holy Communion. -- Hayden Upchurch

SPAM is my god. It's the only deity that can be eaten raw or fried.

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life.

did you ever consider that lsd and color TV arrived for our consumption around the same time? Here comes all this explorative color pounding, and what do we do? we outlaw one and fuck up the other.

I got my hands under the breasts, lifted them. Tons of meat. Meat without mouth or eye. MEAT MEAT MEAT. i slammed it into my mouth and flew into heaven.

And now I wonder which animal of us will eat the other first physically and last spiritually? We consume animals and then one of us consumes the other, my love.

I'm hungry," she said. "Let me cook!" "I'm hungry too. I'll eat you!

The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting, and fucking.

as I continue to consume - while the madhouses, skidrows and graveyards are filled with the likes of me

all the fossil fuels humankind will ever have are already here, waiting to be extracted from the ground—in contrast to food, which is grown every season from the soil, and freshwater, which is drawn in constant but limited amounts from rivers, lakes, and aquifers.

Rocketing up the growth curve, humankind every year takes ever more of the earth's richness. An often quoted estimate by a team of Stanford biologists is that humans grab "about 40% of the present net primary production in terrestrial ecosystems"—40 percent of the entire world's output of land plants and animals.