Quotes on Consumption

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.