Quotes About Materialism

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it's hard to take criticism and all the things like that.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I am totally unattached to material items.

They were materialists, who hoped to explain the world in terms of objects obeying rules, rather than being driven by an underlying "purpose.

If we are what we have, and we have nothinh, thenwho are we? Are we nothing?

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

If I am what I have and all I have is lost, then what am I?

Whoever said you can't buy happiness has never been shopping.

It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life—for all its material good fortune—has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.

Whole world was nothing but a big rattrap. It set baits for people by offering riches and joys, shelter and food, heat and clothing exactly as the rattrap offered cheese and pork. As soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, the rattrap closed in on him, and then everything came to an end.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Uno degli obiettivi del sistema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

Come si possono portare i consumi all'infinito? Il meccanismo è costruito su tre leve che sono la pubblicità che ci fa desiderare qualcosa, rendendoci insoddisfatti di ciò che abbiamo; il credito, che ci permette di acquistare qualcosa anche se non abbiamo il denaro necessario; e la cosiddetta obsolescenza programmata che ci impone di rinnovare il consumo perché il mercato offre oggetti costruiti per durare sempre meno.

Uno degli obiettivi del sitema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

Cet empire du jetable finit par toucher l'homme lui-même, dont on peut se demander si, au terme du processus, il n'est pas devenu obsolète à son tour.

He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing.

N?ra ir niekada nebus Rojaus, o tik ledin?s pragaro lygumos, kuriose kiekvien? valand? kaupiasi žemiškojo pasaulio turtai. Šalti ir bežadžiai žmogiškojo gyvenimo krantai, kuriuose viešpatauja ne dvasia, o materija.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.