Consumption Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise)…

— Rodney Clapp

“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless…

— Vironika Tugaleva

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

— Dan Ariely

“Memories, dreams, and our imagination are linked inextricably with the objects of our lives and the rich associations we have with meaningful places. But…

— Sarah Robinson

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this…

— Henry James

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling…

— Jose Mujica

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.…

— Jenna Wortham

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption',…

— Petr Skrabanek

...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never…

— Brian D. McLaren

“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow…

— Anthon St. Maarten

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

— Barbara Kingsolver