Quotes About Materialism

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

The push for us to throw perfectly good things away and buy new things to replace them so that somebody else can get rich--an idea that goes against our own basic instincts and common sense--still holds us in thrall. We are married to a disposable economy dependent on waste.

Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.

Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One consequence: Much of the material buried in landfills in recent years was bought with those same credit cards, leading to the quintessentially American practice of consumers continuing to pay, sometimes for years, for purchases after they become trash.

immorality, materialism, and godlessness.

Once upon a time, it used to require a sacrifice to buy something. you saved up, you gave up thing you might want just so you could put enough money aside to purchase something big or long-lasting or vital. Now, people tend to think the sacrifices is not buying.

When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.

Freud said that once we have the basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter, and health, then what we seek is wealth, power, honor, and the love of men and women. For financial titans who aggressively continue to seek tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and sometimes billions, you can ask, "Is the winner really the one who dies with the most toys?" How much is enough? When will you be done? Often the answer is "Never.

Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either.

As one can find expired, trash, low and cheap standard material at open markets easily; similarly, mostly fools, ignorant, frustrated, ill-minded, suffering from self-vanity, and such ones, can be available freely, on Wikipedia websites.

Money is not the success of life; it is only the power of buying the objects.

The sin exhibits the believing in religion and religion in a context and concept of spirituality, requires not the evidence; however, devotion only, which prevails science and all materialistic subjects and objects. As a fact, believing is itself evidence, in multiple ways.