#consumption

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. ↗

— Guy Debord

#become #circulation #considered #consumption #fundamentally

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

#diseases #flattering #most #poetry

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ↗

— Elise Boulding

#frugality #happiness #beauty

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. ↗

— David R. Brower

#average #average guy #believe #consumption #cost

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#indulgence #many #now #self #tend

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#also #art #consumption #corporate #frankenstein

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ↗

— Doug Larson

#being #called #consumption #dog #eaten

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership