Quotes About Consumption

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?

The world is too much with us; late and soon,' " he said, quoting Wordsworth. " 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;/ little we see in Nature that is ours;/ we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

The fairy tales warn you: Do not go in, you who would eat will be eaten.

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.

eat—Twinkies,

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Moniko tyranni pitää itseään vain toukkana joka syö pois mädän ja sillä keinolla pelastaa koko ruumiin?

People are at best an asset to be exploited, and at worst a cost to be endured. Everything is optimized for capital, until it runs out of world to consume.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

We may prefer a more primitive analysis: that when you defeat an enemy you are required to eat his heart. In this way is your victory recorded with The Gods. In this way too do The Gods ensure the continuation of their amusement: you consume the heart of your enemy so that it can no longer be said of him that he exists -- except as he exists in you.

The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

She knows Con's habits, piling on turf and logs, mad for the big blaze, reckless with firewood like there was no tomorrow.