Quotes About Materialism

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Bret Easton Ellis

and like in a movie I appear in front of the D'Agostino's, sale's clerks beckoning for me to enter, and I'm using an expired coupon for a box of oat-bran cereal and the girl at the checkout counter--black, dumb,slow-- doesn't get it, doesn't notice the expiration date has passed even though it's the only thing I buy, and I get a small but incendiary thrill when I walk out of the store, opening the box, stuffing handfuls of the cereal into my mouth, trying to whistle Hips to Be Square.

Like these girls care," Price snorts. "When I tell them what my annual income is, believe me, my behavior couldn't matter less.

Patrick's obsession with his likes and dislikes and with detailing everything he owns, wears, eats, and watches has reached a new apotheosis. In many respects American Psycho is one man's ultimate series of selfies.

The next morning over a breakfast of bran muffins and kiwi and Evian water and wheatgrass juice, Ann mentioned something about buying a BMW and I had to hold back a scream. It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it

when wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice—

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Y'know how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for you.

Me duele muchísimo el epnsar que, la amable, la divina elegancia del cuerpo, es una ladrona linda y vil que para bien adornarse dejó el alma sin ropas ni pan, sumida en la miseria.

May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust.

We can begin by trying to take our goals less seriously. We shouldn't buy things in the hope that they will make us happier. At the time of purchase, we trade off the joys of a faster computer or a bigger house with the costs of payment. The joy will fade — more quickly than we are built to anticipate — but the bills will remain.

se não houvesse exploração, não haveria a expansão significativa das forças produtivas, e, se tal expansão não existisse, não haveria base material para o socialismo

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism.

confused elitist. She thinks the kind of car you drive defines you, along with your zip code.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Money don't buy happiness, Gytha.' 'I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

Money is all you can think about when all you have is a price, Carrot said

Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire'?

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