Quotes about Consumption
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
— Barack Obama
Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
They set the kindling afire to consume the body of a man who had but one goal—to make the Bible readable for everyone.
— Scot McKnight
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
— Mark Twain
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