Quotes About Materialism

The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart

die wahre Erfahrung von Freiheit: das Wichtigste auf der Welt zu haben, ohne es zu besitzen.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.

thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes

and they looked with coming hatred and with fear upon this young man, saying in their hearts they knew he lied, because they could not believe there was in the whole world a man who would choose an earthen house when he might have a great one.

En fin, en este país se hace cada día más difícil sobrevivir al modelito. La globa la lleva, los pobres arrastran la bolsa del pan sin pan.

When you're talking about over 26,000 items - and that's just Disney - it's a little hard to say where want ends and coercion begins.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.