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

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

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

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

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
Helen Fielding

Even more worrying is the violence we do to our personal relationships when we let media consume time we might otherwise spend with each other.
Hugh Mackay

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

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

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

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

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
Joseph Hume

Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need.
Louis Blanc

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

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
Mark Thomas

Pornography changes the attitudes and lifestyles of those who consume it, no matter how old a person is.
Donna Rice

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.
Christopher Darden

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
Andy Taylor

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

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