Quotes About Materialism

The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Fun can be bought with money, but happiness cannot.

We want it all, and we can borrow to get it all, before we can afford it all.

we buy things we don't need with money we don't have in order to impress people we don't like.

People were running around buying things they couldn't afford with money they didn't have to impress people they didn't even like

Compramos cosas que no necesitamos con dinero que no tenemos a fin de impresionar a personas que no queremos.

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

I want you to have some nice stuff; I just don't want your nice stuff to have you.

For Marx, history is the story of a constant dialectical struggle, not between abstract Hegelian ideas but between all too real classes and economic forces. This is why his philosophy is sometimes called Dialectical Materialism

that spiritual goods are given to the just as the better [reward], while temporal goods may go to the unjust, but these are of course quite worthless

That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.

if today you sold everything you possessed and gave it to the poor, you would indeed take a huge economic hit. But you would survive. You'd collect your next paycheck.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metal forks for them when eating.

Now all this may sound like hokey child's play as most would say but you look at them and ask and they don't even have a penny to their name and eating spam or faking it in public on credit cards

Materialistic items do not move me, I love nice things but they do not motivate or decide for me what I do in life

Four million people going around in aimless circles, going nowhere, getting nowhere. And they're all doing their jobs. And when they're not doing their jobs, all they're thinking of is gratifying their petty little needs; dressing up in weird clothes; going to weird parties; muddling their way through their weird little lives...

Nothing is avowed to exist nowadays unless it can be bought or sold or measured by scientists. Why should artists have to acknowledge the complete supremacy of materialism? Must everything mysterious be exploded or all unaccountable things explained away? And if so, what is gained? Plain men drudging in a world of plain things. That's not the world I know and it's one I've no wish to know.

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

In effect, Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?