C Quotes
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“Consuming is the opposite of producing.”
“Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.”
“Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.”
“Consumismo e nazionalismo fanno gli straordinari pur di farci immaginare che milioni di di estranei appartengano alla stessa comunità: una comunità fatta da noi, che dovremmo avere un passato comune, interessi comuni e un futuro comune. Non è una menzogna. È immaginazione. Come nei casi del denaro, delle società a responsabilità limitata e dei diritti umani, le nazioni e le tribù di consumatori sono realtà intersoggettive. Esse esistono unicamente nella nostra immaginazione collettiva, eppure il loro potere è immenso.
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens. Da animali a Dei. Breve storia dell'umanità, Giunti Editore/Bompiani, Firenze/Milano, 2019; pag. 451”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!”
“Consummated science is positively humble.”
“Consummation is consumption
We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume
All joys are cakes and vanish in eating
All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth”
Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. (“Buying now, dying later”)”
“consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad, but there are consequences to our acts, and those consequences are environmental degradation and the huge social inequalities that make our standard of living in the United States possible.”
“Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.”
“Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.”
“Consumption is a universal phenomenon. All humans consume varieties of products, many of which beyond actual necessity, because it activates the brain's reward center. And the more a certain product activates the reward center with its unique characteristics or its predominant social stature, the more that product gets chiseled into the long-term memory of the consumer, making it a fundamental part of the individual's psychological well being. Thus the human mind grows a deep psychological bond with a product. And this bond can grow so strong in time that it would defend itself from all sorts of criticisms. It is the brain's way to maintain its internal purely individualistic well being. Hence, a strong psychological bond between the mind and a product slowly not only becomes invincible to criticisms, but also, develops its own cognitive immune system against such criticisms.”
“Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.”
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“Consumption is not bad, but when done at excessive proportions it turns out to be not just bad, but downright deadly for the self as well as the society, as the society itself is a collective functional expression of many selves.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.”
“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.”
“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”
“Consumption isn’t just about taking—it’s also about sharing, repurposing, and honoring the life cycle of the things we use.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Consumption isn’t just about what we take—it’s about what we give back.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Consumption may be regarded as negative production.”
Source: Principles of Economics
“Consumption never creates wealth.”
“Consumption only ever gives a promise of happiness, never happiness.”
Source: Happiness Happens: Happiness For Those Who Have Everything Else
“Consumăm virtualul, imagini în conservă, ne lăsăm contaminați de impactul unei vieți și unei societăți de consum care devine din ce în ce mai artificială. Îndoparea și adjuvantele au devenit necesare pentru a putea, pur și simplu, să te speli în fiecare dimineață, să poți sta în picioare, să mergi să muncești, să gestionezi la minimum o viață intimă sau familială, o viață personală mai exactă, alergând după timp, pentru a simți că sentimentul de a exista se face prezent în viețile noastre.”
Source: "Mami, tati, mă auziţi? Pentru o mai bună înţelegere a copilului"
“contact high…
i just wanna spend forever
getting high off what it feels like
to be around you”
“Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'”
“Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.”
“Contact often has the effect of hardening hostilities, not dissolving barriers. This effect is common in politics. When Jesse Jackson was running for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, his percentage of the white vote was consistently highest in those states with the fewest blacks. Whites with the most actual contact with blacks were least likely to vote for him. The same was true in 2008 during Barack Obama’s Democratic primary campaigns. He won the highest percentages of the white vote in states such as Iowa, which has few blacks, and the lowest percentages in states with large black populations. Bernard N. Grofman of the University of California, Irvine has found a reliable political correlation: As the number of blacks rises, more whites vote Republican—and the less likely they are to vote for black candidates. It is whites whose knowledge about blacks is filtered by the media rather than gained first-hand who have the most favorable impression of them. The alleged benefits of diversity seem illusory to the people who actually experience it.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Contact Southwest”
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“Contact.
When someone touches me wrong it isn’t a feeling. It isn’t hate or fear or pain. It is just blackness and a chant in me: get/out/get/out/get/out.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.”
“Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by talking them through. Shutting myself away in the country, for instance, would do nothing for me. One depends on one's surroundings. And so the exchange with other artists - and especially the collaboration with Lueg and Polke - matters a lot to me: it is part of the input that I need.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.”
“Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.”
Source: Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life
“Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.”
“Contact with the customer is what business is all about.”
“Contact with the police has left many people with a bad experience.”
“Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.”
“Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.”
“Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.”
Source: Archangel's Blade
“Contacts doesn't equal connection. Having someone's contact number doesn't mean you have a relationship with the person. You must take time to court that friendship. Build Trust!”
“Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.”
“Contagion is hate’s greatest attribute and its most treacherous, anyone is susceptible.”
“Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them”
“Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to grasp the universal principles that allow the technique to work in the first place and that will finally enable you to transcend the form itself to discover the formless.”
Source: Brush Meditation: A Japanese Way to Mind & Body Harmony
“Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.”
“Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.”
Source: Rede eines Indianers:
“Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.”
“Contamination of the soul began with man.”