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Quotes about Consumption

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
- Mother Teresa
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thing The Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey.
- John Milton
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
I drink no more than a sponge.
- Francois Rabelais
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.
- Virginia Woolf
Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.
- Craig Groeschel
Life is beautiful, so long as it is consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white-hot to the last bit.
- DH Lawrence
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
- Wendell Berry
Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.
- Charles Martin