These disposable quotes will inspire you. Disposable intended to be thrown away after use or readily available for the owner’s use as required.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging disposable quotes, disposable sayings, and disposable proverbs.
Best Disposable Quotes
- “We live in a disposable society. It’s easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling.” ~ Neil LaBute
- “I don’t consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income.” ~ Mindy Kaling
- “And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: “Look at this Godawful mess.” ~ Art Buchwald
- “With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit “zones of social abandonment” extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons.” ~ Henry Giroux
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“I don’t think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost – certainly not to the point of giving up – but there’s something to be said for a book that isn’t instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.” ~ John M. Ford
- “Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a ‘disposable’ culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.” ~ Pope Francis
- “In today’s disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there’s someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.” ~ Kelly Cutrone
- “The linear ‘Take – Make – Dispose’ system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle” ~ Ellen MacArthur
- “Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
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“Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don’t matter, they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be indeed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been.” ~ Margaret Atwood
- “Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.” ~ Bell Hooks , Disposable quotes relationships
- “One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, “I’m a failure;”; “I’m not working hard enough”; or, “I’m not as smart as the next person.”” ~ Judith Butler
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“Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it’s disposable.” ~ Brian McKnight
- “There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.” ~ Pope Francis
- “It’s interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn’t it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.” ~ Gwen Stefani
- “If you’re like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may will never have any disposable income.” ~ Dave Barry , Disposable quotes income
- “I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that ‘the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.’ I could not have phrased it better myself.” ~ Dave Barry
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“We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.” ~ David Ogden Stiers
- “Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.” ~ Marco Rubio
- “Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
- “Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.” ~ Jenny Eclair
- “With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.” ~ Bruce Dickinson
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“Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.” ~ Vera Wang
- “I think I’m developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word ‘franchise.’ I just think of something that’s packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don’t know. It’s a really weird word for me.” ~ Kate Winslet
- “Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.” ~ Al Yankovic
- “Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.” ~ Sandra Lerner
- “You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that’s bad for everybody.” ~ Hillary Clinton
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“Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong, and disposable.” ~ Cher
- “The problem is once you’ve written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there’s nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.” ~ Colm Toibin
- “In case you haven’t heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said ‘best summer ever’ is with a good ol’ disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there’s no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.” ~ Candice Accola
- “I’m not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can’t play anything. I’m not bad on the Tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I’m not a jazz musician … my band, they always joke, they always say that I’m a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.” ~ Michael Buble
- “What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he’ll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he’s living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he’ll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.” ~ David Edelstein
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“Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum’s missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.” ~ Carol Thatcher
- “Well, it’s not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I’ll spend to find out how to get people more of it.” ~ Penn Jillette
- “A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.” ~ Reid Hoffman
- “So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment – not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel – but there’s a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I’d like to say that entertainment isn’t a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.” ~ Nicholas Meyer
- “Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.” ~ Greg Behrendt
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“I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.” ~ Christa B. Allen
- “Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice – registry offices, ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ the disposable diaper – is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.” ~ Martin Amis
- “The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling or public humiliation, and so we’re fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we’ll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they’re a little bit more disposable.” ~ Ashton Kutcher
- “Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald’s wrapper.” ~ Jeff Beck
- “During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.” ~ Glennon Melton
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“In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.” ~ Irena Chalmers
- “When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings.” ~ Philip Wollen
- “There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the
toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your
eye by the checkout: corn.” ~ Michael Pollan - “Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather’s that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you’ve been through clothing that you’ve worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.” ~ Patrick Grant
- “Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.” ~ Rex Smith
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“Everyone has the attitude that movies aren’t just disposable entertainment – they can really mean something. I love that, because that’s the way I feel about films.” ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- “I’m an actor for hire. It’s important not to forget that you’re disposable….When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.” ~ Scarlett Johansson
- “Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.” ~ John Howard
- “Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.” ~ John Malkovich
- “Don’t slip into the traps, and don’t forget about your ‘hood, the kids in the ‘hood. Remember, you’re disposable, so take advantage while you can.” ~ Isaac Hayes
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“As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.” ~ Jennifer Armintrout
- “Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it’s so different from painting, and it’s so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.” ~ Kehinde Wiley
- “The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.” ~ Henry Giroux
- “Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.” ~ Henry Giroux
- “If you look at the world now it’s one that we couldn’t have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn’t have believed that everything is disposable!” ~ will.i.am
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“If the laborer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.” ~ Karl Marx
- “I want the coal miners, who’ve been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don’t care who they vote for. I don’t care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I’m fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don’t have disposable people.” ~ Van Jones
- “I’m an environmentalist, and I don’t want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don’t want to have a disposable worker and I don’t care who you vote for. You’ve got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can’t say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.” ~ Van Jones
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“The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable – someone to be purged from the body politic – and who is not. Drunk drivers are predominately white and male.” ~ Michelle Alexander
- “The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.” ~ Michelle Alexander
- “For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It’s a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.” ~ Nina Turner
Disposable is used to describe a product that can be bought cheaply and is meant to be thrown away after use.
