Quotes About Consumption

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

That body of his, which had been fed more on stimulants than on food...

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

I hate flowers to death. What are they for? You cannot eat them. They die in a day. They are a complete waste of money.

Faster cars, wider roads, and fancier fires do not make better picnics. Nor do cold wars produce warm hearts.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consumeThe entire combustible world in one small room.

My temptation is quiet.Here at life's endNeither loose imagination,Nor the mill of the mindConsuming its rag and bone,Can make the truth known.

Many persons have of late left off the use of West-India sugar on account of the iniquitous manner in which it is obtained. Those families who have done so, and have not substituted any thing else in its place, have not only cleansed their hands of blood, but have made a saving to their families, some of six pence, and some of a shilling a week. If this, or a part of this were appropriated to the uses before-mentioned, it would abundantly suffice

let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle,

T]he people of plenty were a people of waste.

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On

There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore.

valuable technical nutrients—cars, televisions, carpeting, computers, and refrigerators, for

Artwork can be consumed for ages. The people and the state can be proud of it. That is why it is incorrect to stimulate something that has no real value.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Much like the rat that presses the lever for more cocaine and forgets to eat, we'll crave music that pushes our buttons but has no sustenance.

It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.

She pulled the phone back to look at her photo, then, drawn by its ruthless intensity, kissed the image. Her lips left semen smears on the screen. Commodity fetishism at its finest.

The great expanding centre of 'inner Britain', London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made electrical equipment, it did not grow food but it did process it – into beer, refined sugar, Horlicks and Mars bars. It made tyres, Hoovers, films.