Quotes About Consumption

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel & Adventure... the result of this bestial lust is the indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of my energies - wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.

I can't believe I ate the whole thing.

Good to the last drop!

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

Man did eat angels' food.

Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.

Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.

Animals feed themselves, men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating.

And it's so natural that a man shouldn't have taken so many chocolates as a woman.