Quotes About Materialism

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

It's neat how money smells nothing like anything in the world except money, just like cardboard.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it. Isn't it?

He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all our emotions combined cannot counteract those laws; it can only hate them.

Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever more pronounced. In times such as ours, when secular and material values dominate social and cultural life to an extreme degree, the intensity of the urge to have creates an ever widening gulf from the awareness of who and what we are.

A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

The Setting and the People: Ohio "I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property."?Alexis de Tocqueville

This result was very convenient for Marxist–Leninist dialectical materialism

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?

Henry Thoreau said that we don't own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it's a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.

Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

We don't own things. Things own us.

If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands, for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty

Never think you can convince God through prayer for a blessing. Praying for prosperity is a wrong weapon for war. If prayer could bring money, all intercessors would be billionaires.

Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

People say 'dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky', this is your feeling, not the Dog's!!!