Quotes About Consumption

En Kjøtpudding hører Pensionaternes Verden til, den er en tung Prøvelse paa Fat. Den kunde høve til et uhumsk rituelt Maaltid. Man spiser den med Gaffel eller Øse, saa længe til det ikke er mulig at bli mere bedøvet. Vi Landsfolk vi tygget Kjøtet selv før vi fik Maskine til det, vi syntes ikke det skade oss nævneverdi.

This was full when I left. Demon, did you eat some of my toothpaste?

I didn't shop. I committed retaliatory consumerism.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

Según la ONUDD, somos el cuarto país a nivel mundial con mayor consumo de cocaína en estudiantes, sólo estamos superados por Guatemala, Estados Unidos y Chile.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If we feel that something is missing or not quite right, then we probably need to buy a product (a car, new clothes, organic food) or a service (housekeeping, relationship therapy, yoga classes). Every television commercial is another little legend about how consuming some product or service will make life better.

Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations

Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of these pyramids change from one culture to the other. They may take the form, for example, of a suburban cottage with a swimming pool and an evergreen lawn, or a gleaming penthouse with an enviable view. Few question the myths that cause us to desire the pyramid in the first place.

For the average American or European, Coca-Cola poses a far deadlier threat then al-Qaeda.

Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned 'more stuff' into a panacea applicable to almost all public and private problems, from religious fundamentalism through Third World authoritarianism down to a failed marriage... Economic growth has thus become the crucial juncture where almost all modern religions, ideologies and movements meet.

The modern capitalist economy must constantly increase production if it is to survive, like a shark that must swim or suffocate

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world. Obesity

In the early twenty-first century, the average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald's than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack.

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.