Quotes About Materialism

Pay a fortune for an LCD TV, all very well, but it doesen't improve the quality of the shite they make you watch.

Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

artificial trees, robot sofas, Ignorant cars- One Way Street to Heaven

Whitney sipped, still not looking up from her phone. "Mmm, perfect," she said. Whitney loved being cared for, and she did look after me as well. If sometimes it felt as if she treated me like staff, I could live with that. Wasn't I using her, too, in my own way? Would I still love her if she were poor, or less influential, less glamorous? I liked to think I would, but I couldn't know for sure.

Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York

the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

When we are in survival mode, we automatically become materialists, defining reality with our senses: by what we can see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. We also narrow our focus and put all our attention on matter—on our bodies existing in a particular space and time.

And let's say that our ambition in life is to become successful and to accumulate more things. When we do, we reinforce who we are, without ever addressing how we really feel. I call this being possessed by our possessions. We become possessed by material objects, and those things reinforce the ego, which needs the environment to remind itself of who it is. If we wait for anything outside us to make us happy,

In high Beta, the outer world appears to be more real than the inner world. Our attention and conscious awareness primarily focus on everything that makes up the external environment. Thus, we identify more readily with those material elements: we criticize everyone we know, we judge the way our bodies look, we're overfocused on our problems, we cling to things we own out of fear that we might lose them, we busy ourselves with places we have to go, and we're preoccupied with time.

When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.

No matter where you went—no matter how ancient the traditions, no matter how grand the history, no matter how awe-inspiring the landscape—there was always a market for a cheap Happy Meal. The Lotus Way might lead to nirvana, but it was a long trip, and when you had a lot of miles to cover, it was just natural to want some drive-thru along the road.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.

Maybe he who dies with the most toys doesn't win, thought Bennett. Maybe he's just dead.

The very minute you are not depending on bread alone for your life, you are spiritual. The very minute you know that money isn't supply, that money is only one of the forms that supply takes for our temporary use—the minute you know that—you're spiritual.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.