Quotes about Consumption

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.

Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was the closest she could get to him without becoming food: she was in him, or part of her was in part of him. Sex was the other way around: While that was going on, he was in her. I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself