Quotes About Materialism

en este país por unos tenis uno se mata o se hace matar. Por unos tenis apestosos estamos dispuestos a irnos a averiguar a que huele la eternidad…esto es por un principio de justicia: aquel a quien se los van a robar cree que es injusto que se los quiten puesto que él los pagó; y aquel que se los va a robar cree que es más injusto no tenerlos…

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign

In the porch of one house Jake saw a skateboard and it made his heart jump: a Santa Cruz, one of the expensive ones. He'd begged for one for years. He looked at the house, its closed curtains. There was a child in there, maybe a boy same age as him, dreaming in a bed, who had a Santa Cruz,

There is reason to fear that men love better to investigate how muslins, hay-rakes, and, above all and inclusive of all, money may be made, than how their own minds are constructed

Tout s'achète : l'amour, l'art, la planète Terre, vous, moi.

Neviens rekl?mas p?rst?vis nev?las j?su laimi, jo laim?gi cilv?ki nav pat?r?t?ji.

Cunoa?te?i diferen?a dintre boga?i ?i s?raci? S?racii vând droguri pentru ca s?-?i cumpere Nike, iar boga?ii vând Nike pentru ca s?-?i cumpere droguri.

??nh cao c?a s? t?m th??ng chính là ti?n, b?i ai c?ng thèm khát nó.

Tôi ?ang s?ng trong m?t th? gi?i v?i vã t?i n?i ng??i ta s?n sàng tr? ti?n cho c?nh t??ng b?t ??ng.

Los ricos de hoy han olvidado que el dinero es un medio, no un fin. Ya no saben qué hacer con él.

Sabéis cuál es la diferencia entre los ricos y los pobres? Los pobres venden droga para comprarse unas Nike mientras que los ricos venden Nikes para comprar droga.

Miopia este ultimul t?u lux. Totul este minunat de vaporos, ca într-un videoclip. Totul este de suprafa??.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.

Materialism may do what a foreign invader could never hope to achieve—materialism robs a nation of its spiritual strength.

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?

God does not need our money. He owns everything, including "our" money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world's goods.

There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as "the century of superficiality.