Quotes about Consumption
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
— CS Lewis
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
— Henry David Thoreau
How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
— Mark Batterson
Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.
— Mark Buchanan
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
— Mark Twain
The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.
— Martin Luther
The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.
— NT Wright
avenues—television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.
— Os Guinness
America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.
— Peter Kreeft