Quotes About Consumption

Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.

Le cerveau humain exige considérablement plus d'énergie : les 2 % de la masse corporelle que représente le cerveau consomment 20 % de toute l'énergie produite au repos.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right.

With each passing second, more information becomes newly available than you could ingest, at typical viewing and reading speed, in the next eighty years.

Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.

I felt as if the whole house was like a living organism slowly and imperceptibly digesting me by the action of some stupefying gastric juice.

I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word.

Most had bellies full of plastic. The plastic would grow and grow in their bellies until, years from now, as they mingled, as they drank expensive wine, their bellies would burst and out would come all the plastic, dribbling onto the floor. Pressing cool and bloody against some synthetic floor.

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties.

Train them to pay attention to their choices. (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are good ideas, he would lecture, but those three concepts should only be the last resort. What you really need to focus on are two other words that also begin with R- Reconsider and Refuse. Before you even acquire the disposable good, ask yourself why you need this consumer product. And then turn it down. Refuse it. You can.)

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

Everything we stand for can be expressed in terms of how we spend our money.

Families are going broke because they buy too much stuff!

That wild animals have largely moved out of our view is of small note to many of us. We think, abstractly, that they live out there somewhere, browsing or flying or killing or doing whatever it is they do, and we think that we are keeping them among us by the sheer force of our desire, even as we consume, insatiably, the places where they live.

Trash? echoed Cadfael, mildly and thoughtfully. Oh, pleasant to have, and useful, I know. But once you have enough of it for your needs, the rest of it is trash. Can you eat it, wear it, ride it, keep off the rain and the cold with it, read it, play music on it, make love to it?

Greenstreet observed: "The food now is pretty well all meat.

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

Now that he's up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people's hearts and minds.

Come apart in my mouth.

Perfecte gastheren. Vehikels die je kunt gebruiken en waaraan je plezier kunt beleven, en dan weg kunt gooien. De weggooimaatschappij breidt zich uiteindelijk tot de mens zelf uit. Daar streeft Phobetor naar, een wereld waar de mens niet meer is dan een lege huls. Waar daemonen oppermachtig zijn en de volledige zeggenschap hebben over jullie aarde. - Leo

No one made cars like this anymore. She could suck a gas pump dry and empty a man's wallet without ever coming up for air. Hard to resist a beauty with that combo of skills - especially when she made him feel so damn good while it happend.

The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.