Quotes About Materialism

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

To measure success with material things is failure!

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

50% of the people who always talk about money is broke as hell.

Happiness is not about collecting material things or beautiful memories. It's about having a deep feeling of contentment and knowing that life is a blessing.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism.

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth. Happiness comes from giving not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others we cannot stop it from coming to us also.

You will leave this world with exactly what you came with. Nothing. Enjoy memories. Not materials.

I might not have everything I want, but I feel good knowing I do have everything I need. And he who dies with the most stuff in the end... Still dies.

Don't cherish luxury so much that you cant live your life without it, because everything come and go, learn to live not based on materials thing but based on nature of life itself.

Stop watching out others properties, otherwise you will hate what's in your hands.