Quotes About Consumption

more efficient than vegetable food.

Unless we get off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

we are simply not well adapted, evolutionarily, to be able to consume alcohol safety outside of the traditional context of ritual and social controls.

You can have malice towards other life forms other than humans. This, though somewhat contentious, could be said to be involved when eating animal products. Why? Anyone eating them is only doing so out of desire rather than need and this desire involves the doing of harm.

Money is not the success of life; it is only the power of buying the objects.

I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

La plebe éramos nosotros. La plebe era ese disputarse la comida y el vino, ese pelearse para que te sirvieran el primero y mejor, ese suelo mugriento por el que los camareros iban y venían, esos brindis cada vez más vulgares...

se desprecia a las mujeres, se les consume, se les desecha, se les estigmatiza, se les cuelga para siempre al árbol patriarcal y allí se les ahorca

Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.

People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

Siz sözcükleri okumuyorsunuz ki efendim, onlar? yutuyorsunuz. Sözcüklerin tad?n? ç?karmak gerek. Ä°nsan?n aÄŸz?nda da??lmal?.

Foods which are readily & cheaply available are often not deliciously eatable and that which is truly delectable is not usually affordable to the majority of the population. So, there is a very big market lying untapped for outlets which can offer to customers the foods that meet both the criteria of affordability and availability.

Fools remain often glued to the different media and also claim to be updating their knowledge with the worldwide news.

The relationship amongst materialistic people is neither symbiotic not synergistic, but only parasitic in nature.

But, if we let it, technology can also add a lot of noise and distraction that get in the way of our most fundamental creative capabilities—instead of freeing us, it can consume us. What

The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an ecological serial killer, and it's long past time for us to recognize the pattern.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Left or right, we all happily use plastic combs, toothbrushes, cell phones, and cars, but we don't all pay for it with high pollution. As research for this book shows, red states pay for it more—partly through their own votes for easier regulation and partly through their exposure to a social terrain of politics, industry, television channels, and a pulpit that invites them to do so. In one way, people in blue states have their cake and eat it too, while many in red states have neither.

Oil's been pretty darned good to us," she said. "I don't want a smaller house. I don't want to drive a smaller car.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.