Quotes About Consumption

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

I want people to fall back in love with clothes like they did in the old days, and value what they buy a little more, and look after clothes better.

I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

If you buy something online, you're supposed to pay a use tax.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

But then, at meals, my attention is pretty well riveted on the foodstuffs.

Je continue à travailler avec les matériaux dont je dispose et qui me constituent. Je suis un omnivore avide de sentiments, d'êtres vivants, de livres, d'évènements et de batailles. Je mangerais toute la terre. Je boirais la mer entière. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

Sou omnívoro de sentimentos, de seres, de livros, de acontecimentos e de batalhas. Se pudesse, comeria toda a terra. E beberia todo o mar».

Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.

But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith. Consumption of Christian services replaces obedience to Christ. And spirituality is one more thing to consume. I go to many, many conferences and talk about these things, and so often I see these people who are just consuming more Christian services.

We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith. Consumption of Christian services replaces obedience to Christ. And spirituality is one more thing to consume.

We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith.

The will to obey is the engine that pulls the train of spirituality in Christ. But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith.