Quotes About Consumption

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

To be modern is to destroy nature.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.