Quotes About Consumption

Generation Y is the first generation to spend more time on the Net than watching TV, with 10.6 hours per week watching TV and 12.2 hours surfing the Web.

Rice provides a full one-fifth of calories consumed worldwide, more than wheat or corn, and is the essential staple in the daily diet of 3 billion people, many of them poor and food insecure.

Similarly, a 2016 World Resources Institute report analyzes a variety of possible dietary modifications and finds that "ambitious animal protein reduction"—focused on reducing overconsumption of animal-based foods in regions where people devour more than 60 grams of protein and 2,500 calories per day—holds the greatest promise for ensuring a sustainable future for global food supply and the planet.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

We have bestowed on Africa just enough of the disposable junk of the modern world to create in African cities a junkyard replica of the West

We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty, buy what we don't need, and throw away everything that's useful. Don't sell a man what he wants—sell him what he doesn't want. Pretend he's got eight feet and two stomachs and money to burn. That's not illogical—it's evil.

He was practically pushing the hot dogs down his throat.

Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

The price collapse was slowing the development of new supplies. Low prices were also stimulating demand. In 2015, the growth in world oil consumption was more than twice what it had been in 2014. With cheaper gasoline, the share of SUVs and light trucks sold in the United States rose from under the 50 percent it had been in 2012 to 60 percent in 2015.

In 2018, there were 867 cars for every thousand people in the United States, 520 in the European Union. Compare that to the 339 in Russia, the 208 in Brazil, the 160 in China—and just 37 in India. In other words, the world's auto population will grow substantially as incomes rise and the number of people increases from today's 7.8 billion to 9.5 or 10 billion.