consumption quotes

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.