Patrick Stump Quotes

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.