Quotes About Consumption

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

Eating healthy is not so much about what you eat, but what you don't eat.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.