Quotes About Materialism

If your trashcan or wheelbarrow has dent in it, you don't buy a new one. Maybe that's because we don't use trashcans and wheelbarrows to communicate our social status or identity to others.

The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

To consume is to be consumed by inauthenticity,

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

happiness is an exclusive quality of the soul. Thus, a body  that  attains  all  the  material  successes  it  longs  for—money,  power,  fame, etc.—often belongs to an unhappy person. Happiness depends totally on the degree of growth and development attained by the soul, the real person. The

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

It is intentionality that tears the seamless fabric of the causally closed material world.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

I will be in a position where I can afford the Bugatti, but I most certainly won't be buying it.

I don't believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

If you could still see yourself living in a cardboard box with somebody with no money then that is love you know, it's what's important.

We might make money and be in the careers we're in, but we don't need a bunch of stuff. We like showcasing that and letting people know that it's OK to not want things and keep wanting bigger and better.

I don't believe in cards. I believe in cash. I'd carry gold if it wasn't so heavy.

I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.

Dhanam' is one of the interesting scripts that I came across. It centers around me.

I get so bummed when I have to return the clothes I'm lent. It's easy to feel so special, but like Cinderella, you lose your shoes.

I hate predicting football scores that mean a lot to me, because even though I'm an absolute materialist and don't believe in anything superstitious, I get superstitious.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.