Quotes about Consumption

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Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told — Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our b — Evan D.G. Fraser
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of life in a culture whe — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, th — William S. Wilson, Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka
Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they — Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people. — Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Faceboo — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined depri — Anthon St. Maarten
Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We feel so lonely. Lone — Thich Nhat Hanh, For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life
But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to — Jeremey Taylor
Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumptio — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goal — Robert Greene, Mastery
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poor — Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy
The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciati — Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. — Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
Assumption is the biggest human consumption. — Tasneem Hameed
If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the fi — Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that — A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty bec — Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions
If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger — Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness