Quotes About Materialism

My problem was not with comfort or monetary wealth. My problem was with a way of life in which those who have more than they need are envied or extolled, while those who are materially poor are scorned or forgotten.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

P]eople are not reducible to the commodities they consume.

Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me.

The publicists of mass-production economics have successfully altered public taste to believe it doesn't make sense to repair something old when for the same price you can have something new.

The search for a material paradise is a flight away from humanity into the sterile nonlife of mechanisms where everything is perfect until it becomes junk.

Class is material consumed.

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

unlike previous councils that had to deal with one or two specific heresies, this council had to face a more comprehensive problem: the very foundations of faith had been shaken and put into mortal jeopardy. Rationalism, materialism, religious indifference, and, most generally, denial of the spiritual dimension of human life figured large in the problems to be dealt with.

W]e as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are all incapable of being conquered.14

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

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When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

Utiliza las cosas del mundo, pero disfruta sólo de Dios; encuentra en él toda tu felicidad.

Agriculture creates and elevates possessions; consider the longing root of belongings, as if they ever make up for the loss.

Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?

There's even a name for the people who have the most stuff. They're called hoarders. Back in the day they were just called grandmothers.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.