Quotes About Consumption

T]he existential setting that came to be known as the 'society of consumers' is distinguished by a remaking of interhuman relations on the pattern, and in the likeness, of the relations between consumers and the objects of their consumption.

La función de la cultura no consiste en satisfacer necesidades existentes sino en crear necesidades nuevas, mientras

It is sterile and dangerous to believe that one dominates the entire world thanks to the Internet when one does not have enough culture to filter good information from bad information for consumption, all of them in competition for the unbearably fleeting and distracted attention of potential customers, striving to capture that attention beyond the blink of an eye.

El amor y el ansia de poder son gemelos siameses: ninguno de los dos podría sobrevivir a la separación. Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es autodestructivo, el amor se autoperpetúa.

A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.

From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires –

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

He watched the villagers at their work and tried to get to know their ways: how they made their stores and divided them for consumption, how they bred their animals and made tools for the field, plows, harrows, rakes, shovels, as well as weapons, tubs, baskets and the like. He watched them making repairs and improving their houses with saws, hammers, and axes, or bringing wood to their homes by the easier method of using sleighs, or satisfying the other necessities of life in their few trades.

ivory in the nineteenth century was a more rare and expensive version of what plastic is today

Daily calorie consumption was more than halved, which meant that, on average, German adults lost 20 percent of their body weight during the war.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten'?" He laughed again. "Racine has his moments, sure, but you can't beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

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What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?

The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless.

new techniques of mass persuasion. "We must shift America from a needs to desires culture," Mazur said. "People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man's desires must overshadow his needs.

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

But, all things considered, I believe that most people read quickly because they want not to read but to have read. But why do they want to have read? Because, I think, they conceive of reading simply as a means of uploading information to their brains.

Eating was something to do to pass the time.