Quotes About Materialism

But I notice that my eyes and my thoughts pass quickly over the plastic on my desk. I hardly give the computer a second glance. I can muster no reflective moment for plastic. It is so far removed from the natural world. I wonder if that's a place where the disconnection began, the loss of respect, when we could no longer easily see the life within the object.

I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time.

Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

All our friends were rich and they worried about having the most, spending the most, trying to figure out how it could make them the best. They trusted no one. You know that silly saying, he who dies with the most toys wins? I think for a lot of people it's actually true.

originally walked away from material possessions because I felt the weight of them dragging me down. Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

What better place to look for trash than in America - the land of consumption and waste?

From spaceman to caveman in three days," she meditated aloud. "How we imagine our civilization is in ourselves, when it's really in our things.

From spaceman to caveman in three days, she meditated aloud. How we imagine our civilization is in ourselves, when it's really in our things.

a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents.

a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents. They

I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is. -Lily Francone

I tried not to think of my one excursion to Whole Foods, over a year ago, where I found myself paralyzed by all the special food for special people, whose special murmurings seemed to be saying, Out of my way! I want a Tofurkey!

Money has no religion except itself.

I am not a religious man, I am a materialist, but even I can see that priests are a kind of bacteria that enable people to find life digestible.

the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account...

We live, he [Gandhi] felt, not in order to feed, clothe, shelter and pamper the body; we provide for the body in order to live. Life begins after the needs of the body have been met, yet how many people ruin life for the sake of rich living. The soul, alas, needs a temporary abode, but a clean mud hut will do as well as a palace, indeed better, for when the physical absorbs the lion's share of a man's effort the spirit languishes, life loses content, and discontent appears.

Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

It seems to me that the more money one has the more one worries about little unimportant things.

when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them.

Need and desire have no connection," I said. "Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

Many people desire things they do not need.

Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.