“We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.”

“We buy things we do not need to impress people we do not like.”

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”

“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like.”

“I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.”

“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.' ...It is time to awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick.”