Quotes About Consumption

La sociedad de consumo nos condena a vivir en un estado de insuficiencia perpetua, a desear siempre más de lo que podemos comprar. Se nos aparta implacablemente del estado de plenitud, se nos tiene siempre insatisfechos, amargados por todo lo que no podemos permitirnos. Se ha dicho que el sistema del consumo comercial es un poco como el tonel de las Danaides que además sabe aprovechar el descontento y la frustración de todos.

El homo politicus ha cedido el paso al Homo felix. No se trata ya de cambiar la sociedad, sino de vivir mejor en el presente, uno mismo y los suyos, de ganar dinero, de consumir, irse de vacaciones, viajar, distraerse, hacer deporte, arreglar la casa. Los sueños del gran ocaso se han extinguido y la cosa pública ya no motiva las pasiones más que superficialmente.

Podría decirse pues, con más exactitud, que no vamos de experiencia sexual en experiencia sexual, sino de experiencia amorosa en experiencia amorosa. En cierto sentido, esta turn over [rotación] afectiva concuerda con la lógica de renovación perpetua del hiperconsumo.

De fato, o marketing político corresponde à instalação das sociedades democráticas na era do consumo moda: foram os valores inerentes à sua ordem, o hedonismo, o lazer, o jogo, a personalidade, o psicologismo, a cordialidade, a simplicidade, o humor, que impulsionaram a reestruturação das declarações políticas.

Consumimos em espetáculo aquilo que a vida real nos recusa: sexo porque estamos frustrados, aventura porque nada de palpitante agita nossas existências no dia a dia; ...

A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

A sociedade de consumo é programação do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

We consume to avoid living.

I think Alfred Edmond from Black Enterprise said it best. He suggests you ask yourself, "Am I using money to buy things or accomplish things?" Buying things refers to purchases like a new car or a plasma television. Accomplishing things means spending money on opportunities that move you forward—like homeownership or an education.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

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

Many of us have become embodied "Consumers-Of-THINGS" ignoring our original soul purpose as "Collectors-Of-EXPERIENCES".

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire

it will not be long before the Chinese brew more beer than anyone else. China's just a shade behind the United States, and its output has been growing a staggering 25 percent a year for the last decade, the fastest in the world.

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Although there is much malnutrition in the world, more die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Calories, n, pl. Tiny creatures that live in your closet and sew your clothes a little bit tighter every night.

I am better in health, avoiding all fermented liquors, and drinking nothing but London water, with a million insects in every drop. He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Guilt is always hungry — don't let it consume you.

El objeto, el fin de la vida, era la carne. La vida misma era carne. La vida vivía de la vida. Unos comían y otros eran comidos. La ley consistía, pues, en eso: come o sé comido.