Quotes About Consumption

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it. I

happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,

Todas las botellas llenas de alcohol tienen un mensaje dentro, una sorpresa que uno no descubre hasta que se las bebe…»

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in

was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

because happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,

The earth revolves around money.

The world can be divided into two categories: those who eat to live and those who live to eat.

Garretson recalled that he drank four beers, smoked two joints

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.

As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth's surface and every other corner, to multiply the needs of mankind, and the desire for material possession and enjoyment.

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. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.

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.

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

Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Everything in this world is eater or eaten, seed is the food, fire is the eater.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.