Consumption Quote by Bryant McGill

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

— Vandana Shiva

“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.”

— Alex de Waal

“Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.”

— Bryant McGill

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.”

— Pierce Brown

“Never take the violence when you are hungry, because violence is the sign of weak people”

— M.Rishad Sakhi

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of…

— E. F. Schumacher

“You should be querying why you consider a violent society as being normal.”

— Steven Magee

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A