Quotes About Consumption

Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.

The modern proliferation of porn consumption, in short, has escalated both conflict between the sexes and the harms of female-female competition. The technology behind porn is modern. The sexual psychology it exploits is evolutionary ancient.

Rather than making you never want to eat chicken again, it simply makes you angry. It makes you hold a grudge. You'll eat chicken again, by God, and you'll chew really, really hard.

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

a new group, flexitarians, who eat meat if not too many people are watching.

bowl. It was disgusting to think that this was what a gumdrop might look like in your stomach, and it was insulting to be told not to take too much of something you didn't really want in the first place.

He also made a 1-2-3-4 cake, which calls for one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs. I ate half of it, which amounts to one entire stick of butter.

Compost, gardenias, guaranteed exchange rates, little deals here and there, playing the stock market, and getting sick become a substitute for living.

El hombre es la medicina que da vida a la mujer! Todas las mujeres tienen que consumirla.

when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?

Buy less; buy better. Make fewer styles; design better.

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs.

World gone money mad. The pinch of war gone, people must spend. Buy and forget. Spend and solace. Silks for sorrows. Jewels to bring back joy.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

I'd say I watch a fair amount of TV, but I'm not a TV addict by any means.

Technology can create needs even as it addresses them.

So many movies get made, and so many go to VOD, which is a market I admire.

I don't think people watch too much TV anymore. I don't.

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

I want POM Wonderful to be within arm's reach of everyone who wants it. That is the biggest service I can do.

Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützliche oder notwendige Dinge.

For the last thirty years, however, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the artisan. Nowadays we have products, we no longer have works.

He unlocked the passenger door and it groaned open. "That door is loud," I said. "And this car is a gas guzzler." "That's the point," he said. "Negro men like big cars. We don't believe in conserving energy. After all we've been through, we deserve to be wasteful.