Quotes About Materialism

The slogan for America is 'Not Good Enough'. Nothing's ever fast enough. Nothing's big enough. We're never satisfied. We're always improving…

It helps to know you're not any more responsible for how you look than a car is. You're a product just as much. A product of a product of a product.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Towles burn. Bathroom inferno! Chanel No. 5, it burns. Oil paintings of racehorses and dead pheasants burn. The reproduction Oriental carpets burn. Evie's bad dried flower arrangements, they're these little tabletop infernos. Too cute! Evie's Katty Kathy doll, it melts, then it burns. Evie's collection of big carnival stuffed animals—Cootie, Poochie, Pam-Pam, Mr. Bunnits, Choochie, Poo Poo and Ringer—it's fun-fur holocaust. Too sweet. Too precious.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Söylemeye çal??t???m ÅŸey ÅŸu: Buras? Amerika. Otuz bir çekmekle baÅŸlars?n?z, grup sekse kadar ilerlersiniz. Önce biraz ot içersiniz, sonra eroine terfi edersiniz. Kültürümüz böyle; daha büyük, daha iyi, daha güçlü, daha h?zl?. Anahtar kelime: ilerleme.

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose.

and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Do NOT die while wearing cheap shoes.

La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan. Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos librando una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espirirual.

Podemos tener suficiente, o conseguir un poco solamente nos hará ansiar más?

The things you own end up owning you

Reklamlar insanlar? gerek duymad?klar? arabalar?n ve k?yafetlerin peÅŸinde koÅŸturuyor. Kaç kuÅŸakt?r insanlar nefret ettikleri iÅŸlerde çal???yorlar, neden? Gerçekte ihtiyaç duymad?klar? ÅŸeyleri sat?n alabilmek için.

Hay un tipo de mujeres y de hombres jóvenes y fuertes que quieren dar su vida por una causa. La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

Lo que posees acabará poseyéndote.

These men and women sitting behind unlocked doors know a bigger house is not the answer. Neither is a better spouse, more money, tighter skin. Anything you can acquire, she says, is only another thing you'll lose. The answer is there is no answer.

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.

KilitlenmemiÅŸ kap?lar?n ard?nda oturan bu insanlar, daha büyük bir evin, sorunlar? çözmeyeceÄŸini çok iyi bilirler.. Daha iyi bir eÅŸ, daha çok para ve daha gergin bir cildin de. Sahip olaca??n her ÅŸey; bir gün kaybedeceÄŸin ÅŸeylerden yaln?zca biridir..

Chuck Palahniuk "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't