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Quotes about Consumption

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.
- John Updike
Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
- CS Lewis
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
- Henry David Thoreau
How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
- Mark Batterson
Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.
- Mark Buchanan
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
- Martin Luther
The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.
- NT Wright
avenues—television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss