Quotes About Materialism

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981

Once, just once, Sally had suggested that Daphne worked too hard. "And now with this big house. . ." Daphne had turned to the house, looked up at the three narrow stories, and said, "Only in New York would this be considered a big house. It has one bathroom." She turned back to her mother. "One bathroom," she said, in a kind of wonder.

the "advertising lords" of Madison Avenue who "had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

La sociedad de consumo nos condena a vivir en un estado de insuficiencia perpetua, a desear siempre más de lo que podemos comprar. Se nos aparta implacablemente del estado de plenitud, se nos tiene siempre insatisfechos, amargados por todo lo que no podemos permitirnos. Se ha dicho que el sistema del consumo comercial es un poco como el tonel de las Danaides que además sabe aprovechar el descontento y la frustración de todos.

L'uomo che possiede una cosa poi ne vorrà due e poi tre e poi tutte le cose che ci sono sulla terra. E avrà in cambio solo la sua condanna, perché nessuno può possedere tutto il mondo.

Lo que poseo parece ser mío, pero soy poseído siempre por aquello que tengo.

La moneda, junto con la suciedad de las manos que la han asido y palpado, lleva consigo el contagio inexorable del crimen. Entre todas las cosas inmundas que el hombre ha manufacturado para ensuciar la tierra y ensuciarse él mismo, quizá sea la moneda la más inmunda de todas

Pero los hombres se destruyen con el hierro y se compran con el oro.

We consume to avoid living.

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you'd be miserable poor.

Money doesn't talk it screams

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

Many of us have become embodied "Consumers-Of-THINGS" ignoring our original soul purpose as "Collectors-Of-EXPERIENCES".

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire

Only in America do people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

Consumerism has a religious day called Black Friday.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion.