Quotes About Consumption

termitas, gusanos y mil y un bichos carcomerán nuestros libros hasta destruirlos.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.

There's always been narcotics. But people don't just up and decide to dope theirselves. By the millions.

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.

Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.

was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed… . He wanted … to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls, and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

I'd rather spend my money on books than unnecessary electricity...

Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Certi libri vanno assaporati lentamente, altri divorati in un sol boccone. E solo alcuni, pochi, vanno masticati per digerirli completamente.

The environmental prescription has been to act as much as possible like you were already dead. Don't reproduce. Don't consume. Don't trample the earth or you'll compress the dirt and kill the plants. Every exhalation poisons the atmosphere with CO2. Is it any wonder we haven't gotten there?

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.

Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure." The researchers called this phenomenon "mindless accumulation

The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be a supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

Esa es la única forma de solucionar el problema industrial: enseñar a la gente a que sepa vivir y viva en la belleza sin necesidad de comprar.

What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they've got none to spend. That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.

Life is beautiful, so long as it is consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white-hot to the last bit.