#consume

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#anything #consumer #desire #digestive #driven

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. ↗

— Robin Gross

#balance #bargain #between #consumer #copyright

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it. ↗

— Steve Largent

#consumer #demand #respond #shaping

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#client #consumer #development #historical #into

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#book #consumed #i #i think #need

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#also #because #consumed #date #exactly

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left. ↗

— Warren De la Rue

#age #area #consumed #diagram #done

So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #responsibility #food

We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because it was put before us...And this is understandable given the workings of our system where without a job we perish, where if we don't want a job and are happy to get by we are labeled irresponsible, non-contributing leeches on society. But if we hire a fleet of bulldozers, tear up half the countryside and build some monstrous factory, casino or mall, we are called entrepreneurs, job-creators, stalwarts of the community. Maybe we should all be shut away on some planet for the insane. Then again, maybe that is where we are. ↗

— Ferenc Máté

#consumerism #sanity #life

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being. ↗

— Walter Brueggemann

#consumerism #peace #productivity #rest #sabbath