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Quotes About Consumption

Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.
~ Georges Bataille
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
~ Georges Bataille
You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
~ Georges Bataille
Le danger n'est pas dans la multiplication des machines, mais dans le nombre sans cesse croissant d'hommes habitués, dès leur enfance, à ne désirer que ce que les machines peuvent donner.
~ Georges Bernanos
Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.
~ Gerald Durrell
Mushrooms Dairy Berries Processed meats Green tea Excess fat
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.
~ Russian proverb
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
~ Charles Churchill
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
~ George Herbert
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
~ Old saying
It is interesting people question about Herbs Toxicity when they question nothing about Poisons in Pharma Drugs, Meat, Alcohol that they are intoxicating themselves with daily.
~ Dr Xiang Jun, drxiangjun.com
Vocês são todos uma e a mesma espécie, têm os mesmos objectivos, os mesmos sonhos, os mesmos medos... Comem a mesma comida, dormem o mesmo sono... Por isso vão contra a vossa natureza quando se dividem para tornar mais fácil matarem-se uns aos outros. Países, bairros, credos, nomes, partidos, clube. Vocês matam-se uns aos outros por um par de ténis.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.
~ J.M. Coetzee
When did a sheep last die of old age? Sheep do not own themselves, do not own their lives. They exist to be used, every last ounce of them, their flesh to be eaten, their bones to be crushed and fed to poultry. Nothing escapes, except perhaps the gall bladder, which no one will eat. Descartes should have thought of that. The soul, suspended in the dark, bitter gall, hiding.
~ J.M. Coetzee
A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day.
~ J.M. Coetzee
No será la belleza otro objeto de consumo, como el vino? Uno lo bebe, lo traga y nos da una breve sensación placentera, embriagadora, pero ¿qué queda? Lo que el vino deja como saldo, con tu perdón, es la orina; ¿cuál es el saldo de la belleza? ¿En qué te hace bien? ¿Nos hace mejores?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Yo tengo ganas de decirles que la conciencia se te come hasta que no queda nada de ti, como una araña que se come a una avispa, o una avispa que se come a una araña, nunca me acuerdo de cómo va, y solo queda la carcasa.
~ J.M. Coetzee
i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
I wished the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
more you drink more you want
~ Jack London
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
~ John Sulston
There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom.
~ Robert Indiana
There are two things that happen when there is a recession. One, more people watch telly and two, people buy more raw foodstuffs, instead of processed foods.
~ Gregg Wallace