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Quotes About Consumption

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
~ Gail Sheehy
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
~ Doug Larson
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
~ Rowan Williams
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
~ Michael Pollan
Humanity is just a virus with shoes.
~ Bill Hicks
To eat is human, to digest, divine
~ Mark Twain
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.
~ Frederick Lenz
Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.
~ Fawzi Ibrahim
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
~ Dave Barry
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
~ Stephen King, Under the Dome
Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.
~ Lewis Black
I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
~ Bill Hicks
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?
~ Steven Wright
They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
~ Carla H. Krueger
The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
~ Brian Celio
What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it.
~ Brian Rathbone
Ish #21 "Stop saying the only meat you eat is chicken. It's still meat!
~ Regina Griffin
Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
~ Peter Sotos