Quotes About Consumption

I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

As for alcohol, when India's fervent teetotaller Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, visited Punjab in 1978 the Akali Dal Chief Minister, Badal, announced that in Morarji's honour the Punjab government would introduce a weekly dry day (a day when liquor shops and bars are closed). Morarji Desai replied tartly, 'You need to. Punjab has the highest per capita consumption of alcohol in the country.

My wife has a black belt in shopping.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Is the future of humanity really about clouds you can't see and chips you can't eat?

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Affluence creates poverty.