Quotes About Consumption

helping move the country away from a "Made in China" past to a "Bought in China" present.

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that.

in the middle of the decade, three revolutionary technological developments created the conditions for anyone to create and share videos: the smartphone, video-sharing platforms, and fast internet speeds enabled millions of people to capture, distribute, and consume video

In an effort to increase sales, food manufacturers engineer processed foods that are sweet, salty, and fatty, all flavors the body naturally craves.

In other words, if the U.S. government cannot find ways of living within its means, as most families are forced to do, the nation may fall into third-world status, complete with scarcities of food and water, consumer goods, and socialized government control.

It's great to have things as long as our things don't have us.

It is my theory that what others don't see you've eaten doesn't count.

My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity left and was nothing but a coil of hatreds consuming themselves in futility. We had already hedged her power, with the help of the fairies.

We had already agreed that, Father," Penn said. "And of course they will likewise take the greater shares when we eat you. Berend and I are established, while our brother and sisters are still in need.

It is the delusion that the self is so separate and fragile that we must delineate and defend its boundaries; that it is so small and so needy that we must endlessly acquire and endlessly consume; and that as individuals, corporations, nation-states, or a species, we can be immune to what we do to other beings. The

CONSUME OBEY BE SILENT DIE

Ése es el grave problema de esta sociedad: está llena de deseos de consumir y de aparentar, pero hay muy pocas ganas de ser.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

On se saluait chaque matin et l'on se droguait gentiment en rentrant le soir. Shit, herbe, pinard, incunables, Marie-Antoinette ou Heineken, c'était chacun son trip et Marvin pour tous.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

I want to eat the melancholy I can feel inside my ribs, beside my heart. I want to eat the sad...