Quotes About Consumption

We live in a capitalist society, so our power as people who consume is significant. I boycott unethical companies and avoid buying stuff made in sweatshops and stuff that will end up in landfills.

It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

I drink no more than a sponge.

With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.

When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.

The coronavirus pandemic and fears about its spread have brought to a screeching halt years of efforts to get Americans to do one small thing: bring their own bags to the grocery store and stop using plastic ones.

We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just spring up at Kmart on the rack. They're made from cotton.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee.

Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.