Quotes About Consumption

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Cuando está allí, su piel pálida y ojos llorosos hacen que luzca glamorosamente trágica, como una heroína literaria desgastándose con el consumo.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Mr. Bebee had lost every one, and had consumed in solitude the tea-basket which he had brought up as a pleasant surprise.

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored.

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.