In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, ...and freedom through consumption. The dictatorship of consumer goods has finally destroyed the barriers of blood, lineage and race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means ...of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way... he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And he thought to himself...., 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to h...im, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me n...othing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »