#consumption

Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consumption #have-nots #haves #influence #quotes

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition. ↗

— Evan D.G. Fraser

#consumption #food #necessity #people #food

Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it’s all about consumption and calories. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#consumption #culture #eating #food #mealtime

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

— Jimmy Carter

#indulgence #many #now #self #tend

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#change #consumption #everything #huge #i

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#consumption #daily #daily life #economic #economic system

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. ↗

— Evan Dando

#bands #consumption #dig #even #history

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#consumption #economy #energy #energy consumption #environment

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#big mac #communion #consumption #mac

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#activity #alcohol #cigarette #cigarette smoking #consumption