History Quotes / ConspicuousConsumption

->'''Van Zieks:''' My hallowed bottles are filled with the essence of the finest grapes from the finest vineyards I visit. And I personally oversee these chalices being made by the finest crystal craftsmen in the world.
->'''Iris:''' And yet you throw them around in court like they're worthless.

-->--'''Martin Riggs''', ''Film/LethalWeapon1987''

->''The green revolution had produced much more food. That made food cheaper. In turn, that meant we had more money to spend. And we had started to spend it on “stuff”: televisions, video recorders, Walkmans, hair dryers, cars, and clothes. And we also started to spend it on vacations. Far more vacations. At the center of this spending spree was the astonishing growth of transportation. In 1960 there were 100 million cars on the world’s roads—by 1980 there were 300 million. With this came a massive expansion of road networks—carving up entire countries, further increasing loss of habitat for other species. In 1960 we flew 62 billion passenger miles. In 1980 we flew 620 billion passenger miles. Global shipping grew at a similarly astonishing rate. All of the stuff we were buying, plus all of the food we were consuming, plus all the raw materials and resources required to make everything was being shipped around the world.''

-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko Tai Lopez]] WebAnimation/YouTubePoop''

->-- '''Creator/AleisterCrowley''', ''Moonchild''

-->--"Let's Talk About Me", '''Tex Richman''', (''Film/TheMuppets'')

-->--''Wiki/RationalWiki'' on UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}

->''Paltrow spent most of 2011 performing on awards shows (mostly so people could be like, "OMG! I didn't know she could sing! And now I do! I don't know what else to do with this information!"), pushing shit on Goop that no one except Creator/GwynethPaltrow would buy, and unleashing her awful cookbook upon the world, a book that included such amazingly vapid sentences as "''We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden—[[ConspicuousConsumption a luxury,]] I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.''" Is it any wonder we all [[TakeThatScrappy loved watching her die]] in ''Film/{{Contagion|2011}}''?''

->''In this book, dating from 1899, Veblen discovers and defines [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense the leisure class]], whose strange duty is to spend money significantly. So, they live in a neighborhood, [[ShiningCity because it is said that this neighborhood is the most expensive]]. Liebermann or Picasso fixed large sums ''[for their paintings]'', not because they were greedy, but to not disappoint the buyers whose purpose was to show that they could afford a cloth bearing their signature. According to Veblen, [[CrackIsCheaper the golf boom is due to the fact that it requires a lot of ground]].... If a manager does not have time for conspicuous waste, his wife or their children do so for him, so that periodic changes of fashion provide liveries.''

->''Paltrow spent most of 2011 performing on awards shows (mostly so people could be like, "OMG! I didn't know she could sing! And now I do! I don't know what else to do with this information!"), pushing shit on Goop that no one except Creator/GwynethPaltrow would buy, and unleashing her awful cookbook upon the world, a book that included such amazingly vapid sentences as "''We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden—[[ConspicuousConsumption a luxury,]] I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.''" Is it any wonder we all [[TakeThatScrappy loved watching her die]] in ''{{Film/Contagion}}''?''

-->--'''Johnny Cage''', ''Film/MortalKombat''

-->--'''Handsome Jack''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

->'''Van Zieks:''' My hallowed bottles are filled with the essence of the finest grapes from the finest vineyards I visit. And I personally oversee these chalices being made by the finest crystal craftsmen in the world.
->'''Iris:''' And yet you throw them around in court like they're worthless.
-->''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney''