Consume Quotes

370 Consume quotes by 318 unique authors

I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle… — Ivan Illich
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those… — Charles Horton Cooley
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume… — Richard J. Foster
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary… — Wendell Berry
I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world… — Thomas Friedman
If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children… — Daniel Quinn
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view -… — Jeremy Rifkin
I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media. — Jessica Pare
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a… — Louis D. Brandeis
When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only… — Sathya Sai Baba
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught… — Omar Khayyam
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with… — William Osler
Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into… — Scott Cunningham
The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy. — Jane McGonigal
Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul. — Rubin Carter
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons.… — Julian Assange
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. — Erich Fromm
Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder… — Leeza Gibbons
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm… — Michel Gondry
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death… — Leonardo da Vinci
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether… — Larry Elder
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary,… — Helen Fielding
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties.… — Nhat Hanh
A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate. — John Hodgman

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