Quotes About Consumption

When life is hard, pleasure can be more than a diversion. It can easily become a need. We easily move from a properly moderate enjoyment of sensuous experience to a consuming desire for it.

How do you feel?" He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam.

Mankind is hovering now in a purgatory of procrastination and indecision and personal greed... but the rings of hell await, just beneath our feet, waiting to consume us all.

a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Se tivermos uma atenção mais plena acerca de como usamos o nosso dinheiro, teremos menos probabilidades de nos deixarmos levar por anúncios sedutores de produtos que não nos farão sentir mais felizes. A atenção plena conduzir-nos-ia a desejos materiais mais modestos e a gastar mais tempo e energia a realizar as nossas necessidades mais profundas e mais satisfatórias no que respeita ao sentido das coisas e relações.

In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact. with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.

Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?

One never thinks, "Oh, I'd better look for some food." Food is everywhere, and one picks it up almost absent-mindedly, as one takes a breath of air. In fact, one does not think of feeding as a distinct activity at all. Rather, it's like a delicious music that plays in the background of all activities throughout the day. In fact, feeding became feeding for me only at the zoo, where twice daily great masses of tasteless fodder were pitched into our cages.

You'll know you're among the people of your culture if the food is all owned, if it's all under lock and key." "Hmm

Between 2006 and 2013, Chinese gas consumption had tripled. Yet despite the decade of negotiations, the "big deal" on gas was mainly stuck on one question—price. Moscow wanted prices commensurate with what it charged Europeans and indexed to oil (which was still high), while Beijing wanted lower prices in line with domestic energy prices and competitive with coal.

Currently, oil use in the developed world averages 14 barrels per person per year. In the developing world, it is only 3 barrels per person. How will the world cope when billions of people go from 3 barrels to 6 barrels per person?

China today is the world's largest producer of steel (almost 50 percent), aluminum, and computers—as well as the rare earths necessary for electric vehicles and wind turbines. In one three-year period, 2011–13, China consumed more cement than the United States did in the entire twentieth century.

In the decade and a half following its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, China's oil consumption increased two and a half times over. It is currently the eighth-largest oil producer in the world, at 3.8 million barrels per day. But its demand has surged far ahead of domestic supply. It has become the world's largest importer of oil: by the beginning of 2020, 75 percent of total demand.

North America's natural gas base, now estimated at 3,000 trillion cubic feet, could provide for current levels of consumption for over a hundred years—plus.

Making food: 1 hour. Eating food: 20 seconds. Washing dishes: never ending.

I think greed sometimes gets the best of everybody.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Greed is a bottomless bit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.