Quotes About Consumption

Mangeons, my friend. Mangeons tellement que la nourriture bouche tout dans le cerveau et qu'il n'y ait plus de place pour rien qui fait mal.

Oh! Money, money, money! The Frankenstein monster that destroys souls!

Gone are the days when basic needs were food, shelter and clothing. Money replaced everything.

In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians.

Present-day culture, social relations, cityscapes, modes of production, agriculture, and transportation have remade the traditional proletarian into a largely petty bourgeois stratum whose mentality is marked by its own utopianism of "consumption for the sake of consumption." We

Any increase in the relative size of government in the economy, therefore, shifts the societal consumption-investment ratio in favor of consumption, and prolongs the depression.

The only proper test of worth is the judgment of the consumer who actually uses the product. And the State's judgment is bound to be governed by its own despotic interests.

Even vegetarians always cause more damage to plants. The same as steak lovers do to animals.

The consumer has been given no choice, but to keep buying and consuming non-stop.

The family demands wealth to continue. The work requires family support. Wealth needs someone, the family, to consume it. Otherwise, it will be boring to try to enjoy it in solitude.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.

Murder and gore. The world laps it up.

The public's dilemma is to know how to consume the news with an ability to extract opinion from the simple facts and evidence... The best solution to the fact/opinion dilemma is to acquire more diverse information across the ideological and geological divide. If you find yourself relying on one source of information for the news, whether right or left, you are likely to be exposed to more opinion that reinforces rather than challenges your own.

Yet in many cases, the social components were the dominant system drivers. It was often said, for example, that climate change was caused by increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Scientists understood that those greenhouse gases were accumulating because of the activities of human beings—deforestation and fossil fuel combustion—yet they rarely said that the cause was people, and their patterns of conspicuous consumption.

A handful of economists in the late 1960s had realized that free market economics, focused as it was on consumption growth, was inherently destructive to the natural environment and to the ecosystems on which we all depend.

Men are ruled by toys

As a person of faith, I do believe that we are stewards of Creation (see Genesis 2: 15), that we are called to care for our planet, to curb our over-consumption, to reduce pollution and waste, to speak up for and act on behalf of the people who are most vulnerable to our changing climate, and to offer greater opportunities for all people to choose healthier lives.

What you don't know, what you don't understand…You can learn those things starting now. So let's change, okay? Akito. This is what I wanted to talk to you about before. If you continue to stay in this environment, the "bond" and the "Sohma family" will consume you. You'll feel empty inside forever. You'll never be satisfied. You've realized it too, haven't you?

The joint committee invited economists of many economic stripes to model what would happen if America switched from the current code to a unified income tax or a consumption tax. Every economist who modeled reported that the consumption tax would increase long-term economic growth.

Because consumption comes from three sources: income, savings, and borrowings. Stating the obvious, income comes only from income. Our point? FairTax opponents will tell you that the consumption base, the base for national sales tax, isn't stable and can't be trusted—but in reality it's the income tax base that's unstable and can't be trusted. The consumption base is much more predictable.

Americans now eat more than one million chickens per hour.

We do need some fat in the diet. But we need only a fraction of what most of us typically get. A small amount of fat is inherent in grains, legumes, and vegetables. This is all the body needs.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.