Quotes About Consumption

Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten'. Aber welches denn Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen?

The newspaper collects the previous day's garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

Idéologie de l'homme moderne: acheter le plus d'objets possibles; réaliser le plus de voyages possibles; copuler le plus grand nombre de fois possible.

Heinrich Heine: "Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten." Aber welches denn, Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen.

Life" has so obviously become the highest goal of the modern world that whoever lives for something else — even if it's eating — arouses our sympathy.

When respect for tradition dies out, society, in its incessant desire to renew itself, consumes itself in a frenzy.

The ability to consume pornography is the distinctive characteristic of the imbecile.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

avaricia, la cual, como es sabido, tiene hambre de lobo: cuanto más devora, menos se sacia.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

The basic beer ad: big-breasted babes in bikinis. Beer won't get you babes. But if you drink enough, you think they're babes, and if you drink more, you can grow your own breasts.

The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.

What about our looming financial crises? Innovation can solve many problems, but it won't erase unsustainable debt. We have borrowed our way to prosperity with no exit strategy. Loans secured with home equity and other assets lifted consumption in the 2000s as income growth slowed. Dimming prospects of repayment did not deter lenders who preyed on increasingly desperate consumers and homeowners. Behavior that fueled the 2008 financial bubble and bust will persist, but on steroids.

Borrowing to invest can make good sense as long as the return on the investment is higher than the cost of financing it. Borrowing to consume, on the other hand, uses debt to plug recurring bills or deficits that operating income should cover. Experience teaches prudent public and private borrowers a golden rule: borrow to invest, not to consume.

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Fa male vedere uomini e donne impegnati in una folle corsa verso la terra promessa del guadagno, dove tutto ciò che li circonda – la natura, gli oggetti, gli altri esseri umani – non suscita alcun interesse.

Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. And they didn't go down to your tummy, like normal food. No, they went into a dream machine inside your head.

Food prices are insane, always going up, never down. Everyone complains about them.

Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven't fully adapted to eating meat.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.