Quotes About Consumption

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Everything in our world is branded.

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.

Not everything people do is good - people make Coca Cola and some people want it and some people don't, but we don't outlaw it.

Overall, I'm quite good with how I spend my cashola.

I don't eat a lot. I think we overeat.

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.

Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space.

Finally, although Tennent's Super Strong lager, White Lightning, and for the rare rich alcoholic Stella Artois are perfectly acceptable drinks, could you please come up with something less damaging? I think lighter fuel is better for you and contains fewer chemicals.

Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. —Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896

You thought you were being sold a television, but it turns out that television is selling you.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Watching television is the mental and emotional equivalent of eating junk food.

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian.

Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online

too much dark beer, though I do like my coffee

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Happiness equals consumption divided by desire.

We obtain and, even worse, boast about our identity by the things we consume (television, food) more than truth, goodness, and beauty, the three virtues that transcend time and borders. In America and elsewhere, I am because I consume, when it should be because God is and because I do.

It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently, to continue to eat large wild fish at the rate we've been eating them we would need four or five oceans to support the crrent human population.