Excessive Consumption Quotes

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

… frittered away, 9 times out of 10, in things which pertain to the body and not to the spirit; upon richer food and drink, better clothing, more extravagant living, which are beneficial neither to rich or nor poor.

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Restrict the right of the rich to buy up any anything and everything, and then to exercise a kind of monopoly.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.

I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don't remember what I said last night.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

Too much is unwholesome.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.