Quotes About Consumption

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

To maintain our own economy, we are disturbing the nature's economy

What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!

Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.

Recently I keep thinking that this isn't about the survival of a species. It's about why we're never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

I have been eating poetry.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten