Simon Mainwaring Quotes

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

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

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

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.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

The Englishman is like the dog in the fable. The dog who cannot bear that another dog should have a few bones although the overfed brute is sitting with a bowl full to the brim.

If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

Greed is good.

… a creed of greed

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.

I already own more than any human being needs.

Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

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

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I'm talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone is that they take ice cream and then they just go ape sh*t with it.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.