Quotes About Consumption

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

Alcohol - once you drink it, it enters your bloodstream roughly in about an hour's time and begins to get processed. It doesn't sit around in your stomach for a long period of time.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

In our ephemeral information age, people think we've left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they're all still going on - we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.

People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

If every shoe store in America stops selling shoes, no one's going to go barefoot for 15, 20 years. No one needs shoes, for the most part. We have shoes; our problem is what to do with them.

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

I'd go into a department store now and buy everything. It's who I am. I just love cosmetics.

In the U.S. and Canada, we have one store for every 12,000 people.

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.