Quotes About Materialism

Pero siempre ol vida que "tener" no significa "mantener", ni "poseer" "conservar".

Es ist das ewige Staunen aller Naturkinder an allen Enden der Erde über die Kulturmenschen, denen eine Handvoll gelbes Metall kostbarer erscheint als alle geistigen und technischen Errungenschaften ihrer Kultur.

Ultimately, your every desire—the desire for material things, relationships, career success, sexual gratification—is really the desire for the peace you experience for brief moments when you attain the object of your desire.

In the U.S. there are 45,000 shopping malls employing 10.7 million people. The average American family of four metabolizes four million pounds of material every year to support their lifestyle. That's 11,000 lbs. a day, 7.5 lbs. a minute.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

It turns out that I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50%. Do not be tricked, not all yarn is meant to be yours. No matter how good a deal it is.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form

The kids I see are lazy. Nobody wants to work. I teach physics. It takes years to master. But all the kids want to dress like Charlie Sheen and make a million dollars before they're twenty-eight. The only way you can make that kind of money is in law, investment banking, Wall Street. Places where the game is paper profits, something for nothing. But that's what the kids want to do, these days.

Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing

There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects.

It's stores, it's the whole thing, all that shit everywhere, 'scuse me, that merchandise, all those goods, and ads screaming at you from all over the place, buy buy buy buy buy, and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, `Can I help you?`, it's all I can do not to scream, `Bitch, you can't even help yourself.

Beauty is a whore. I prefer money.

La beauté est une putain Je préfère l'argent

All that matters in life, the grey man went on, is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera... Isn't there anyone who loves you? Momo whispered.

Míralos, lo que parecen los que han vendido la vida y el alma por un poco de bienestar. No, a eso no juego yo.