Quotes About Consumption

When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

I think I may be the perfect audience search for Quibi, because I'm a very bite-size kind of person. I can't actually watch long things. The most I can watch is a little episode of 'Forensic Files,' and anything longer than that is too much.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

A lot of new stuff just isn't having the same impact as it used to when people would wait for a specific DVD or video to come out and then watch it over and over and over. Now, it's a two-minute clip online and forgotten the next day.

Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

I do get free stuff.

It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or negative and, frequently, some combination of the two.

I am not frugal - I'm quite a big spender - but not on credit.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

I don't eat fruit.

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

There's no such thing as low-cost fuels.

I consider myself to be a 'reducetarian.' I try to consume less and be aware of the decisions I'm making. Not just food, but single-use plastics, and fossil fuels and energy.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

By the time we came to understand the consequences of our revised patterns of consumption, the damage had been done to our waistline, longevity, soul, and planet.

An Empress drank her husband's blood in long draughts thousands of years ago.

Hän ahmaisee tähteet omalta ruokapöydältään. Sen vuoksi hän on hetken ajan muita kylläisempi, mutta samalla hän myös unohtaa kuinka pöydän ääressä syödään, ja sen vuoksi tähteitä ei enää kuulukaan.

Selfishness is one of the surest signs of profound unhappiness; I was so unsure of everything that I only really possessed what I was actually holding in my hands or in my mouth, or at least what was on its way there –

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.