Quotes About Consumption

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

By contrast, under conditions of simple reproduction, there would be no surplus-value and no profit whatsoever, since all surplus-value would be unproductively consumed without entering into the reproduction process.

all cases, therefore, the use-value of the labour-power is advanced to the capitalist: the labourer allows the buyer to consume it before he receives payment of the price; he everywhere gives credit to the capitalist. That this credit is no mere fiction, is shown not only by the occasional loss of wages on the bankruptcy of the capitalist,[181] but also by a series of more enduring consequences.

Use values become a reality only by use or consumption: they also constitute the substance of all wealth, whatever may be the social form of that wealth. In the form of society we are about to consider, they are, in addition, the material depositories of exchange value.

A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.

It is easy to imagine a society which, having reached a certain level of consumption, consciously decides to give absolute priority to a single goal: reduction of the work load.

The less you eat, drink and buy books the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.

I have no idea how to love another human being unless it's by tearing them to pieces and eating them.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame