Famous Anti Consumerism Quotes & Sayings

I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick. — Larry Kramer

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. — Tom Ford

When I realized I was hovering at the centre of a giant glowing purple vulture, my first thought was: Carter will never stop teasing me about this. — Rick Riordan

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive — Arianna Huffington

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. — Rebecca Skloot

Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] ... I just wanted to know ... what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in. — Jane Goodall

There isn't anything weird about my music. — Frank Zappa

Another important method of evaluation is to determine the as purchased (AP) weight, which is the amount of food purchased before processing to give the number of edible portions required to serve a specific number of customers. The edible portion (EP) is the amount of weight or useable product is left after the removal of such - skin, bones, outside leaves, stems, peels, and so forth - are removed and discarded and are unusable to produce or serve. — Ruby Parker Puckett

If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important. — Katelyn Beaty

He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark — Michael Ventura

He was the color of blood, not the springing blood of the heart but the blood that stirs under an old wound that never really healed. A terrible light poured from him like sweat, and his roar started landslides flowing into one another. His horns were pale as scars. — Peter S. Beagle

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards. — Alfie Kohn

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural. — Willa Cather

He imagined the gazelles raising the dry dust
Like soft brush floating on the crests of sand. — Herbert Mason