Addiction Quote by Robert J. Shiller

“After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.”

— Charles Baxter

“Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown of the…

— Albert J. LaChance

“I came to hate how everything gets junked in America: the food processed and adulterated with sugar and fat; the clothes cheapened; the TV…

— Orna Ross

“Always, endeavor, Slick, to keep a fix on the addiction industries: you can't lose. The addicts can't win. Dope, Liquor, gambling, anything video--these have…

— Martin Amis

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's…

— River Phoenix

“This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.”

— Cornel West

“Unfortunately, food now matters even more than it should. Food is beyond a necessity; it’s also a commodity, and it has been reformulated to…

— Robert H. Lustig

“One of the largest drivers of diet-related chronic disease is misinformation, and the playing field we face as consumers in our supermarkets is anything…

— Yoni Freedhoff

“industry that spends $36 billion a year on marketing messages precisely to persuade us to eat more, and eat at different times, eat in…

— Roni DeLuz

“Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users’ daily routines and emotions.[7]”

— Nir Eyal

What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store…

— Michael Moss

“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness. It is…

— Russell Brand