Quotes About Materialism

That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.

I bought a white Panamera - and then sold it because I had no use for it.

We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.

America is really happy to be sold something.

With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?

I am not somebody who would go on holiday carrying designer clothes and only click pictures for Instagram and then chill in my hotel room.

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

Things are just things, they can't bring back the dead.It just makes me feel better. - Hiiragi

I bought a backscrabber. One more reason to have no need for a relationship.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more.

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this? He made a fist. Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson. What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. We can take nothing with us.

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this? He made a fist. Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.' But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson. What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. We can take nothing with us.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.