Quotes About Materialism

They must continue to produce things they do not really admire, still less love, in order to continue buying things they do not really want, still less need.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus.

If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional well-being will be an inevitable result. Materialism was therefore an unhelpful response to various deprivations. A culturally endorsed coping mechanism that ultimately backfired.

Stoner learned that men killed women for lawn mowers and crockpots.

We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

I know we live in a materialistic world. I am not living on Cloud Nine; I am not living in Disneyland. I understand all that.

I have all the socks and underwear I need.

We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, "Money matters is only a matter of fancy.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.

It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom.