Quotes About Materialism

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

It is living in sensation that makes man material, and after some time he becomes ignorant of the spirit.

Our throughput society depends on insecurity, gluttony, and planned obsolescence. It's how we keep the lights on.

Spending more money ensures greater happiness. This is the confused thinking of the duped consumer.

So this is how we live today: by stuffing ourselves to the gills, yet somehow it only makes us more anxious, more confused, and more hungry.

It's hard to want what we have; it's far easier to want everything in the world.

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Greed puts out the sun.

Als naturalisten en materialisten zijn wij een essentiële categorie kwijt geraak, namelijk die van het begrijpen van de onzichtbare werkelijkheid die van het paradoxale mysterie

By virtue of the fact that they expect so much less than poor Americans—they don't care about movies, clothes, and cars—they are more content than the poor people in America.

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that this is materialistic philosophy masquerading as empirical science. The attitude is that life had to have developed this way because there's no other materialistic explanation.

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

Six feet of land was all that he needed.

Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens: em amor, nós voamos, mas elas rastejam sempre…

This restless searching is what's behind the 'me–first' attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it's affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs." She

The wealth which enslaves the owner isn't wealth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the human wreckage scattered all about us, the terror and militarism prevailing in the country with the stereotyped belief that we were marching forward with great strides.

There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — G. K. CHESTERTON