Overconsumption Quotes

#1. Consumerism sees the consumption of ever more products and services as a positive thing. It encourages people to treat themselves, spoil themselves, and even kill themselves slowly by overconsumption. Frugality is a disease to be cured.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. First, it led to overconsumption, because of what he called the deception of the appetite-control apparatus by the density of the carbohydrates.

Gary Taubes

#3. Overconsumption is a concern for people who've made it to regular consumption. I

Linda Tirado

#4. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#5. The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. American Christians spend more on dieting than on world missions.5 We spend more curing our overconsumption than we do feeding the physically and spiritually hungry of the world.

Tim Chester

#7. Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

Sharon Gannon

#8. And just so you know - that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right.

Elle Lothlorien

#9. Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

Kalle Lasn

#10. And I encourage you all to go shopping more

George W. Bush

#11. Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Should consumerism be the last thing we accomplish as a species, after all this evolution and the miraculous series of accidents that granted our sentience? Would that not be an utterly dull and inane end to our history?

Robert Wringham

#14. All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Saint Augustine

#15. Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Chris Abani

#16. They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.

Alice Hoffman

#17. I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Niki De Saint Phalle

#18. sympathetic to some of the truly needy beggars, he wished these

Jonathan Sturak

#19. He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

Josemaria Escriva