Quotes about Consumption

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The greedy misuse the world by striving to acquire it.

The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.

avenues—television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life.