Quotes about Consumption
Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.
- Frank Herbert
The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.
- Lysa TerKeurst
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
- Ezra Taft Benson
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- St. John Chrysostom
Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.
- Edward Welch
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
- William Wordsworth
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
- Alice Walker
It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
- J. J. Watt
It is strange that when people have so much, they are so anxious about not having enough—to do, to see, to own, to fix, to control, to change.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle