Quotes About Materialism

Beaucoup de gens croient que la pelleteuse et la bétonneuse ne pensent pas. ces gens se trompent: elles pensent. Elles pensent que si elles ne travaillent pas, elles ne gagneraient pas d'Argent, et qu'alors leurs esclaves ne pourraient plus acheter l'huile et l'essence sont elles ont besoin pour vivre et continuer à penser aux choses sérieuses

Ce n'est pas parce qu'on est pauvre qu'on est vertueux, et ce n'est pas parce qu'on est riche qu'on est égoïste.

Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their owner

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.

I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: "Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?" Unfortunately, too many people, when you try separating them from their material possessions and any and all activity, turn out to be like cheap golf balls. You unwind and unwind and unwind but you never get to the pure rubber core because there isn't any.

If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death.

Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

Everyone is hawking products. That's like the highest thing you can achieve now, isn't it? Become some barker. Sinatra hawks beer; he doesn't have enough money, does he?

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Most of the time now we live under a kind of spell, a lulling enchantment sung by the sirens of our consumer society, telling us what will make us happy. That enchantment is a half-truth at best—

money supplants skill; it's possession allows us to become happily stupid.

increasingly we live in a world filled with the equivalents of deadly garage-door openers, unnecessary items that offer us mild and insipid comfort at the price of a dangerous and uncomfortable planet, and at the price of any real relationship to the physical world. if you live in a suburban home and commute to a parking garage somewhere, that ten seconds of opening the garage door(manually) might be nearly the only rain you ever feel.