Quotes About Materialism

What is't to be adorn'd and shine with Gold, Drest like a God, but never know the Pleasure?

To meet this expense, he sold his violin. Besides, Charlotte did not care for music.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

I would like to say that, as the protester finished his shower, I was disturbed by the contradiction between my avowed political materialism and my inexperience with this brand of making, of poeisis, but I could dodge or dampen that contradiction via my hatred of Brooklyn's boutique biopolitics, in which spending obscene sums and endless hours on stylized food preparation somehow enabled the conflation of self-care and political radicalism.

the abyss of non-belief, the vacuum, cannot be filled with stuff

Never in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged—and yet so empty.

The things which… are esteemed as the greatest good of all… can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Por qué lo que no se tiene se desea, y lo que se tiene se desprecia?

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Our necessities never equal our wants

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.

The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called "Once upon a time" in historicism's bordello.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.