Quotes About Materialism

I'm cashmere, for God's sake," it grumbles. "I deserve better than Rubbermaid.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Early in the twentieth century, E.E.Cummings was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Le persone si riconoscono nelle loro merci; trovano la loro anima nella loro automobile, nel giradischi ad alta fedeltà, nella casa a due piani, nell'attrezzatura della cucina. Lo stesso meccanismo che lega l'individuo alla sua società è mutato, e il controllo sociale è radicato nei nuovi bisogni che esso ha prodotto.

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid Ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep.

By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no duty, no virtue, and no highest good.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.

Every possession is a loss

Nor skin nor hide nor fleeceShall cover you,Nor curtain of crimson nor fineShelter of cedar-wood be over you,Nor the fir-treeNor the pine.

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

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Never yet has the blind god, Wealth, come to my house and said 'Hipponax, I'm giving you thirty silver minas and much more.' No, he's far too tight.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.