Excess Consumption Quotes

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Two ill meales make the third a glutton.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

We have an imbalance over how much we produce relative to how much we consume.

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

More die in the United States of too much food than too little.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

I've never met a bread basket that I didn't love. At the same time, it can make me tired. If I have too much wine, it's too much sugar. If I overindulge on tortilla chips in a Mexican restaurant, I can really feel it. I think sometimes just watching it and not doing things in excess can really help with whether you feel good or not.

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

I've bought more shoes during the coronavirus than I ever have. Probably in my entire life.

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.