Quotes About Consumption

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted.

A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things, the doorman said.

At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and dazzling computer special effects, they had such a complete lack of imagination when it came to spending their money: granite countertops and luxury cars. Talking about that stuff, Wax driving, the madder he got, you could watch the speedo creep up past eighty, ninety, a hundred.

It took my whole life to buy this stuff.

Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more?

Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.

Personne ne veut reconnaître que nous sommes des drogués de musique. Ce n'est tout bonnement pas possible. Personne n'est drogué de musique, de télévision, de radio. Simplement, il nous en faut plus et plus, nous en avons besoin, plus de chaines, un écran plus grand, plus de volume. Nous ne supportons pas de nous en passer, mais, non personne n'est drogué. Nous pourrions l'éteindre dès que nous le voudrions.

What Tyler says about being the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see.

Söylemeye çal??t???m ÅŸey ÅŸu: Buras? Amerika. Otuz bir çekmekle baÅŸlars?n?z, grup sekse kadar ilerlersiniz. Önce biraz ot içersiniz, sonra eroine terfi edersiniz. Kültürümüz böyle; daha büyük, daha iyi, daha güçlü, daha h?zl?. Anahtar kelime: ilerleme.

Suicide Is the Ultimate Act of Consumption.

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Así es tu vida, y se consume minuto a minuto.

Until we disentangle fundamental needs and rights from someone's ability to charge us for it, capitalism will continue to throw us over the cliff's edge. This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but a ka-ching. —Afzad Kerman in his TED Talk, "Chaos and Crisis: The Accidental Ingenuity of the Almost-Apocalypse

You do not buy Taco Bell, you rent Taco Bell and then return it to its ecosystem with a couple of flushes.

The shelves had been stripped bare and battered to Hell, as if some super-important Christmas toy release had come and gone and an army of Super-Moms had ripped through the store, buying everything up like an all-consuming void. Didn't hurt that many of the shelves were lined with piles of bones both animal and human.

I know art when I see it, but I don't make it. Some people are makers, others are vampires—that's me. We grow fat on your ideas and imagination. I'm just a beautiful tapeworm, darling…

Facebook is actually competing with cigarettes to be hired for the same Job to Be Done. Which the smoker chooses will depend on the circumstances of his struggle in that particular moment.

the scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed.

We all count the hours. We all look for completion, even if we fear it. We long to be consumed. I long to be consumed.

This is the state of the beast,' it said, 'to eat and be eaten.

This is the state of the beast, it said, to eat and be eaten.

On barstools they ogled the bachelorettes in the club and discussed their chances, recalling near-conquests from previous visits. In the buffet lines they foraged from the heat lamps and steam trays, and impaled and then swirled wasabi around tiny ceramic saucers, tinting soy sauce.