Quotes About Materialism

The jolt of a new purchase makes Mummy feel powerful, if only for a moment.

I already have a toothbrush. I don't know why she would buy me another. That woman buys things just to buy things. It's disgusting.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

For the old people in my family (...) the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

The accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

and neither one of us begged grandad for the fucking tablecloths.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.

We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.

You and I and the Wilcoxes stand upon money as upon islands. It is so firm beneath our feet that we forget its very existence. It's only when we see some one near us tottering that we realise all that an independent income means. Last night, when we were talking up here round the fire, I began to think that the very soul of the world is economic, and that the lowest abyss is not the absence of love, but the absence of coin.

The real thing's money and all the rest is a dream.

Money's educational. It's far more educational than the things it buys.

In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by its good pros remains a bastion of decency, a place where virtue is rewarded and cheating exposed.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Cheap, sentimental things

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

Second Fig Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

All gold is fool's gold.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it partly that kind of practical philosophy which, reducing Egotism to a system, looks upon society as a war of cunning; success the rule of right and wrong, honesty as an affair of taste or decency: and the world as the patrimony of clever scoundrels.))

So, you may be thinking, if dualism is the view that there are two ultimate sorts of stuff, mind and matter, probably we also find a doctrine that says there is only matter, and another that holds that there is nothing but mind. And you're quite right. The first is called materialism, the second idealism (not mentalism), and both have plenty of history. The

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.