Quotes About Consumption

Moynihan aponta que, ... Os profissionais, ..., têm um interesse investido no descontentamento, pois as pessoas descontentes voltam-se para os serviços profissionais em busca de alívio. Contudo, o mesmo princípio forma a base de todo o capitalismo moderno, o qual tenta continuamente criar novas demandas e novos descontentamentos, que só podem ser amenizados pelo consumo de mercadorias.

A publicidade moderna procura promover não tanto a auto-indulgência, mas a autodúvida. Ela procura criar necessidades, não satisfazê-las, gerar novas ansiedades, em vez de atenuar antigas.

aun cuando nuestro cerebro representa solo el 2 por ciento de nuestra masa corporal, demanda el 20 por ciento de nuestro consumo de energía, frente al 9 por ciento que gasta el de los chimpancés.

Unfortunately, upsetting the balance of nature just happens to be what our species has been selected to do well- although we hate admit it. Like the Walrus in Lewis Carroll's poem, we shed hypocritical tears over the diminishing supply of oysters, while gulping them down as quickly as ever.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

Elk 'ideaal', in het begin gevoed door het bloed van zijn adepten, verbruikt zichzelf en verdwijnt naarmate het door de massa wordt overgenomen.

It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or for us to smell, and we look at them and smell them. The Milky Way doesn't exist for us to know if its existence, but we know.

By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

It wasn't obvious that repurposing every aspect of the planet for our own benefit wasn't really to our benefit at all.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming — not producing, not sharing — and we should say, 'No.'

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

We used to be a nation of shopkeepers. Now we are a nation of second hand shops.

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.

We are running this planet like a business in liquidation.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.