Consume Quotes

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith

Life, God, Hate

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Producing

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, Culture

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness, Wealth, Producing

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Erich Fromm

Live, Connection, Manipulate

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon

Poverty, Rather, Attention

Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.
Leeza Gibbons

Care, Giving, Caring

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
Noam Chomsky

Good, Political, Everyone

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder

War, Stupid, Wrong

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace

Born, Statistics, Resources

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
River Phoenix

Success, Mind, Reason

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.
Ted Nugent

Today, Fishing, Lifestyle

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'
Michel Gondry

Culture, Space, System

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
James Agee

Confusion, Attempt, Examine

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.
David Cameron

Big, Less, Changes

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

Giving, Same, Away

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Vivienne Westwood

Today, Far, Ugly

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
John Walters

Change, Try, Eat

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
Manuel Puig

Great, Positive, Stuff

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen

Life, Everything, Become

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.
Niklas Zennstrom

Success, Truth, Same

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
John Hodgman

Real, Forever, Media

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
Vicente Fox

Together, Through, Put

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
Ingrid Newkirk

Time, Meat, Resources

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Jack Henry Abbott

Life, Anger, Daily

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
Jay Inslee

Year, Percent, Oil

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
Susan George

Rich, Status, Clearly

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.
Susan George

Strong, Times, Looking

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Guilty, Level, Percent

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
Bob Ney

Food, Legal, Personal

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