Consumptionist Quotes

#1. Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.

Al Gore

#2. She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.

Nancy Freund

#4. Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

George Osborne

#5. As for those who seek the transcendental Reality, without name, without form, contemplating the Unmanifested, beyond the reach of thought and of feeling, 4 with their senses subdued and mind serene and striving for the good of all beings, they too will verily come unto me.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#6. She was smiling as she imagined herself as one more star in the sea of millions, and her body decided it had had enough, and she felt the exact moment when her power source gave up and the hum of electricity extinguished.
But she was already vast and bright and endless.

Marissa Meyer

#7. If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.

Kangana Ranaut

#8. I was ... labelled as an advocate because ... I measured something.

Jeremy Jackson

#9. I see you now and I can't look away

Amy Daws