Quotes About Wastefulness

Après tout, on vit à l'époque des Kleenex. On fait avec les gens comme avec les mouchoirs, on froisse après usage, on jette, on en prend un autre, on se mouche, on froisse, on jette. Tout le monde se sert des basques du voisin.

Bueno, al fin y al cabo, esta es la era del tejido desechable. Tratamos a la gente como si fueran pañuelos de papel. Los estrujamos después de utilizarlos, los tiramos, cogemos otro, nos sonamos, lo estrujamos, lo tiramos. Todo el mundo usa la ropa de todo el mundo.

Our consciousness is also raised by the cruelty and wastefulness of natural selection. Predators seem beautifully 'designed' to catch prey animals, while the prey animals seem equally beautifully 'designed' to escape them. Whose side is God on?

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

one could certainly make the argument that there's a deep structural affinity between wasteful extravagance and bullshit...

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

se había apresurado a derrochar el dinero con esa facilidad que tienen los que lo adquieren sin trabajo.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.

I wrapped up the remaining half burrito and tossed it into the trash can. Molly watched this act of wastefulness with an expression like she had just seen her entire family die in a fire.

As for mending, I think its good to take the time to fix something rather than throw it away. Its an antidote to wastefulness and to the need for immediate gratification. You get to see a whole process through, beginning to end, nothing abstract about it. You'll always notice the fabric scar, of course, but there's an art to mending. If you're careful, the repair can actually add to the beauty of the think because it is a testimony to its worth.

As for mending, I think it's good to take the time to fix something rather than throw it away. It's an antidote to wastefulness and to the need for immediate gratification. You get to see a whole process through, beginning to end, nothing abstract about it. You'll always notice the fabric scar, of course, but there's an art to mending: If you're careful, the repair can actually add to the beauty of the thing, because it is testimony to its worth.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

I know people who will look at the label on some ham, and if it's a day over they'll throw the whole packet out instead of opening it up and tasting and smelling it.

sips fuel like a mouse sipping sherry from a hypodermic needle.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late.

The true tragedy of routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late.