Quotes About Materialism

L'uomo contento non aveva camicia.

The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services....What people do or make but will not or cannot put up for sale is as immeasurable and as invaluable for the economy as the oxygen they breathe.

P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

No man can lose what he never had.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

If liberty is to be preserved against the materialistic paternalism of the modern state, there must be something more than courts and legal guarantees; freedom must be written not merely in the constitution but in the people's heart. And it can be written in the heart, we believe, only as a result of the redeeming work of Christ. Other means in the long run will fail.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them then to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

Material betterment has gone hand in hand with spiritual decline.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

I wanted," she counts on her fingers, performing the sitcom of her tragedy, "Tribeca loft, expense account, designer clothes so haute they don't look it, my very own Tesla, summer home in the Hamptons I'm too busy to use." "You wanted money," says Justin. Brianna: "It went down with the towers.

Materialism is really our established church; for the Government will really help it to persecute the heretics.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect.

We're fat, we're greedy, and we don't give a shit. Our religion is TV. Our saviour is Bill Gates. We've learned our lessons well. We know how to put number one first.

How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors.

Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Hoje em dia, falsificar luxo é fácil. Colocam-se alguns detalhes do passado da marca, coloca-se um pouco de ouro e pronto. (Miuccia Prada)

Luxury is a motivational narcotic.

Money can change your circumstances to a certain point, but money doesn't help much once you have your basic needs met.

Lie #1: Having more and more of something (love, sex, fame, drugs, etc.) will make you happy.

Abundance has brought beautiful things to our lives, but that bevy of material goods has not necessarily made us much happier. The paradox of prosperity is that while living standards have risen steadily decade after decade, personal, family, and life satisfaction haven't budged. That's why more people—liberated by prosperity but not fulfilled by it—are resolving the paradox by searching for meaning.