Quotes About Consumption

Debris of beer cans, Subway wrappers, and chip bags attested to the fact that Jules, by dint of youth, good genes, and an active lifestyle, could consume as many calories as he pleased with zero impact on the eminently fuckable physique on display

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear

I don't like to spend money. Every time I spend it, I feel as if I'm being raped.

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows.

There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!

By discouraging saving and encouraging consumption, accelerating inflation had stimulated output and employment

Inflation has come down partly because many of the items we buy, from clothes to computers, have got cheaper as a result of technological innovation and the relocation of production to low-wage economies in Asia.

Otros pidieron prestado para financiar un estilo de vida basado en un consumo ostentoso. Los duques de Devonshire, por ejemplo, se gastaban entre el 40 y el 55 por ciento de su renta anual en pagar intereses: tan enormes eran las cantidades que habían pedido prestadas en el siglo XIX. «Lo único que ustedes no tienen —se quejaba uno de sus abogados— es la capacidad de autocontrol.»

Sirve el Hummer para la conquista, o para el consumo? La respuesta es que para ambas cosas. De hecho, con su bajo kilometraje por litro (un promedio de cuatro kilómetros por litro) y su gran altura y anchura, ejemplifica el despilfarro estadounidense en el uso del petróleo.

primera sociedad de masas consumidoras del mundo.

In the earning of things you have lost the ability to enjoy them.

And all of them were obsessed with the appearances of the objects that served their quotidian needs.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

It began when we shifted, in the words of the historian Charles Maier, from an "empire of production" to an "empire of consumption." By the end of the Vietnam War, when the costs of the war ate away at Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and domestic oil production began its steady, inexorable decline, we saw our country transformed from one that primarily produced to one that primarily consumed. We started borrowing to maintain a lifestyle we could no longer afford.

A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

China now spends more money each year importing chips than it spends on oil.

A y regarder de près, les 7 péchés capitaux sont éminemment favorables à l'économie : l'envie, la gourmandise, la luxure font acheter, la colère fait travailler, la paresse fait jouir, l'orgueil avive la compétition et l'avarice favorise l'épargne. C'est d'ailleurs le propre du système capitaliste que de transformer ainsi tout ce qu'il touche, même le pire, en or.

me and starts gobbling me down like I'm Prozac and

by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We