Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them. He would wander around open-mouthed in this heaven of gadgets and commodities, provided only that there were ever more and newer things to buy, and perhaps that his neighbors were just a little less privileged than he.

We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them …

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does …

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. You know, I saw a billboard in New York I wish I had phot…

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

'We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need 'em/Things we buy to cover up what's inside/Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth.'