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Quotes About Consumption

A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lowers classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. We condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus. So that they consume manufactured articles as well as transport.
~ Aldous Huxley
Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release.
~ Aldous Huxley
Volt valami, amit kereszténységnek hívtak, mint már említettem (…) Az alulfogyasztás etikája és filozófiája…
~ Aldous Huxley
La dictature parfaite aurait les apparences de la démocratie; une prison sans murs dont les prisonniers ne songeraient pas à s'évader. Un système d'esclavage où, grâce à la consommation et au divertissement, les esclaves auraient l'amour de leur servitude.
~ Aldous Huxley
Imaginen la locura que representa permitir que la gente se entregue a juegos complicados que en nada aumentan el consumo. Pura locura. Actualmente los Interventores no aprueban ningún nuevo juego, a menos que pueda demostrarse que exige cuando menos tantos aparatos como el más complicado de los juegos ya existentes. -Se interrumpió espontáneamente-. He aquí un grupito encantador -dijo, señalando
~ Aldous Huxley
Cheltuim ast?zi cu mult mai mult pentru b?utur? ÅŸi fumat decât cheltuim pentru edu- caÅ£ie. Åži nu e de mirare. Aproape în fiecare dintre noi, aproape tot timpul, exist? pornirea de a fugi de sine ÅŸi de ceea ce ne înconjoar?.
~ Aldous Huxley
one of Huxley's points: in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning.
~ Aldous Huxley
Gastamos actualmente en bebidas y tabaco más de lo que gastamos en educación.
~ Aldous Huxley
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
~ Aldous Huxley
El servicio había empezado. Las tabletas de soma consagradas fueron colocadas en el centro de la mesa. La copa del amor llena de soma en forma de helado de fresa pasó de mano en mano, con la fórmula: «Bebo por mi aniquilación».
~ Aldous Huxley
Strange," mused the Director, as they turned away, "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.
~ Aldous Huxley
Havia uma coisa chamada Céu. Mas, apesar de tudo, bebiam enormes quantidades de álcool.
~ Aldous Huxley
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
~ Aldous Huxley
That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. If one is different, one is bound to be lonely. Beauty is attractive and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.
~ Aldous Huxley
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. For of course it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
~ Aldous Huxley
Strange, mused the Director, as they turned away. Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays, the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicating of existing games.
~ Aldous Huxley
The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was all. Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to take a holiday from them.
~ Aldous Huxley
First is my name, second those eyes, third a thought, fourth the coming of the night, fifth those mangled bodies, sixth is hunger, seventh is horror, eighth the specters of madness, ninth is meat, and tenth is a man who watches me but does not kill me.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Vita è un bicchiere da bere fino in fondo.
~ Alessandro Baricco
A man gets an appetite when he starts to eat.
~ Alexander Dumas
She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one word: guilt.
~ Alexander Mcall Smith
unconscionable–eating the food in a supermarket was simply theft, and could be distinguished from shoplifting only by virtue of the nature of the container used to remove the property.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He also spends a lot of my money on vitamin pills and biltong.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
But that was what the world was like; we battered and bashed and poured out clouds of smoke and chemicals and particles of every description to bring forth our little objects of desire, our baubles.
~ Alexander McCall Smith