Quotes About Consumption

People have told me that Feed is coming true. (Many of the technologies I discussed have been explored in recent years.) But in a sense, I believe it already was the reality when I was writing. I was already dreaming in advertisements.

Que afinal o que importa não é haver gente com fome porque assim como assim ainda há muita gente que come (Pastelaria, Mário Cesariny)

And to the far north were a people who did not believe that Oceanos' river circled the earth, but instead it was a great girdling serpent, thick around as a boat and always hungry. It could never be still, for its appetite drove it ever onwards, devouring everything bite by bite, and one day when it had eaten all the world, it would devour itself.

are too many mouths to feed. One million three hundred thousand more every week! And of all the people who have ever been alive on Earth, more than half are living right now. We are gnawing the planet bare

People used to 'pig out' on fresh produce and home cooking, but today, there are only the pigs, human and otherwise — no produce. Local fruits and vegetables are vanishing, and only occasional barbecue gatherings remain. Frozen foods and fast foods, and melons and strawberries from Mexico, have become staples. Folks aren't eating less (just look at the stomachs hanging over the counters at McDonald's and Taco Bell), but they are eating differently.

the great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.

Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.

In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.

Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.

Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

He ordered another glass of rosé, and the second one proved as ineffective as the first.

everything is carefully designed to make people crave the food that looks far more delicious on the walls than on the tables.

It is a consuming knowledge, an overwhelming sadness for what is lost that makes enjoyment of the present impossible.

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.