Quotes About Consumption

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

It's not the advertising - it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

Yet not matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity.

The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Give me the heartbeat. Give me the salt. Give me the Viaticum. Fill my mouth.

One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.

It is the very nature of this world that all things are devoured and time is a mouth as bloody as any other.

My mouth filled with blood. My lips closed against his silky white flesh so that not a drop would be lost. Deeply I swallowed.

The world devours the world to make the world

She liked to think that she was wearing her beauty out—using it up, she liked to think. She took some satisfaction in it, like a housewife industriously making her way through a jar of something she did not enjoy, would not buy again, but couldn't just discard, of course.

This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.

What was this place?" Tally asked. "I think they made newspapers here," David said. "Like books, but you threw them away and got a new one every day." "You're kidding." "Not at all. And you thought we wasted trees in the Smoke!

mass production. Instead of making things only when people needed them, like holes in the wall did, Rusty factories had churned out vast quantities of stuff—the whole world in a giant competition to use up resources as quickly as possible.

Predators and prey and ruin—it's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Toplumun organize bir ÅŸekilde belli güç odaklar?n?n maddi ç?karlar? uÄŸruna tüketime ve israfa al??t?r?lmas? düzmecesini fark etmeden bir evreden diÄŸerine geçmek oldukça zor görünüyordu.

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being," a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders concluded in 2012. "In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

We drink the can, not the beverage.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.

More fashion = less need for quality

Thats the trouble with having money; you think about buying almost anything you see.