Quotes About Consumption

Nosotros, los habitantes de este mundo tercero y postrero, no necesitamos el menor esfuerzo mental para saber en qué consiste el infierno de la opulenta sociedad de consumo, de la tersa y radiante sociedad industrial: nos basta con salir a la calle. Pasan con sus sucias mantas al hombro los hijos de la indigencia. Vienen de los basureros o van hacia ellos. Podemos imaginar los paisajes de apocalipsis donde transcurren sus vidas.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

The economy as it is currently structured would grind to a halt if we ever looked at our stuff and simply declared, "It is enough. I am happy with what I have.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, 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!

getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious.

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.

The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.

Men would sooner fuck trash than read it.

The more dishes a man has on his table beyond what is sufficient, the sooner satiety in eating comes upon him.