Quotes About Materialism

Drapacz chmur to po prostu katedra dla ludzi, którzy zamiast wierzy? w Boga, wierzÄ… w mamonÄ™.

No es uno plenamente consciente de la codicia que se esconde en su corazón hasta que oye el dulce tintineo de la plata en el bolsillo.

No more doing things for nothing, Fernandito. Welcome to capitalism.' 'Don't they say that's really bad?' 'Worse. And you're going to love it.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds

You mean like money?

Es mucho mejor que nos quiten los beneficios de nuestro bolsillo a que nos roben las riquezas de nuestra mente y nuestra alma

but is in danger from the American evil of commercializing even the sacred festivals.

Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.

The cry of the flesh: not to be hungry, not to be thirsty, not to be cold. For if someone has these things and is confident of having them in the future, he might contend even with Zeus for happiness. ~ Epicurus

nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it. Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for? Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s. Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it

Statt Bündel mit ihren wenigen Habseligkeiten trugen die Menschen jetzt Pappbecher mit Starbucks-Kaffee in der einen und Aktenzeichen in der anderen Hand.

Twenty-five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free. Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?

Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

I just count money, that's all I do. I count my millions.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

We need to stop running after things, because even if we get the object of our desire, we won't be happy and we'll want to run after another one.