Quotes About Materialism

People would be happier, and in the long run wealthier, if they bought basic, functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption; yet, Americans in particular spend almost everything they have—and sometimes more—on goods for present consumption, often paying a large premium for designer names and superfluous features.

Because you can't change your "natural and usual state of tranquility," the riches you accumulate will just raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before. Yet, not realizing the futility of our efforts, we continue to strive, all the while doing things that help us win at the game of life. Always wanting more than we have, we run and run and run, like hamsters on a wheel. AN

People who report the greatest interest in attaining money, fame, or beauty are consistently found to be less happy, and even less healthy, than those who pursue less materialistic goals.

Your freedom it says. What is that? Some kind of illusory concept where the people in charge let you have comfortable distractions. Enough THINGS so that you don't see your chains. I respect your work too much to let you endure that kind of self-deception.

Know what Oscar Wilde said about cynics?" "They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

And when you're living in America At the end of the millennium You're what you own So I own not a notion I escape and ape content I don't own an emotion - I rent

we care about money not so much because of what it buys as because of where it ranks us among our peers.

richer people were happier than poorer people, but getting richer didn't make a country happier.

Our contemporary consumer is constructed in the first-person singular: I want, I need, I must have. There are many things we can achieve in the first-person singular but one we cannot, namely, sim?a – because sim?a is the joy we share, the joy we have only because we share.

The consumer society, directed at making us happy, achieves the opposite. It encourages us to spend money we do not have, to buy things we do not need, for the sake of a happiness that will not last.

We lose the things we do not cherish enough, his one thought, his only thought, as he slips into his workman's tunic, buttons it over his street clothes, and opens the closet door.

Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model," he says, and he would know. "It will never feel as good as it looks.

Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model. It will never feel as good as it looks.

I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: "I can't live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets". In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Up 5.15 a.m. thinking, packpackpack. I appear to have accumulated more things. How did this happen? I haven't shopped. Think my bath oils have bred.

If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first.

consumismo: esta es una nueva forma de liberación. Estamos destinados a consumir: objetos, cosas superfluas, información, revistas, viajes, relaciones; se trata de tener

De aquí surge un nuevo hombre: embotado, repleto de cosas, pero vacío interiormente. Va a ir siguiendo la ruta de la ansiedad, que terminará en una forma especial de melancolía e indiferencia.

La cultura actual se ha convertido en una civilización de las cosas y no de las personas. El resultado es que las personas se usan como si fueran cosas, degradándose así su trato. Es,

Las dos notas más peculiares son, desde mi punto de vista, el hedonismo y la permisividad, ambas enhebradas por el materialismo. Esto hace que las aspiraciones más profundas del hombre vayan siendo gradualmente materiales y se deslicen hacia una decadencia moral con precedentes muy remotos: el Imperio romano o el período comprendido entre los siglos XVII-XVIII.

la enfermedad de Occidente es la de la abundancia: tener todo lo material y haber reducido al mínimo lo espiritual.

Gente repleta de todo, llena de cosas, pero sin brújula, que recorren su existencia consumiendo, entretenidos en cualquier asuntillo y pasándolo bien, sin más pretensiones.