Quotes about Consumption
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.
- Graham Greene
Desire grows by what it feeds on.
- LM Montgomery
Short is the way from need to greed.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.
- Alain de Botton
I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.
- Jeremy Camp
If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.
- Ernest Hemingway
Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.
- Andy Stanley
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
- Joyce Meyer
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
- Samuel Johnson
As demand goes down, you will see prices come down.
- Arundhati Bhattacharya
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
- Pope John Paul II
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- Samuel Johnson