Quotes About Consumption

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.

plastic-wrapped evermore?

Apart from stemming consumption, the most intractable puzzle that Paul Ehrlich has encountered is why health decisions about Mother Nature—the mother that gives us life and breath—are made by politicians, not by scientists who know how critical her condition is. "It's the immoral equivalent of insurance company accountants making decisions about our personal health." Even