Quotes About Materialism

The only place where abundance is warranted is in nature. A person who wastes is a person who insults the gods. In light of the waste encountered in the modern world, one wonders if anyone knows that there is a world outside of this abundance where people are aware of priorities other than materialism.

Although Firestone's acknowledgment that the personal (the unconscious sexual drives) is not only political but also more fundamental than the political — and indeed structurally prior to any political scenario (democratic, repressive, or revolutionary) makes for a serious and unique challenge and possible contribution to historical materialism, her use of the terminology of the natural/non-natural, in particular, ultimately poses more questions than answers.

It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, and body.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

TETAP BERAGAMA! . Orang beragama percaya adanya setan penambah galau, Tuhan pelenyap galau. Mengurangi galau bisa pakai cara berdoa (GRATIS!), curhat (GRATIS!), ingat/cari orang senasib (GRATIS!). Bisa juga pakai cara dunia (BELI!) . Orang MEMILIH gaya hidup mewah, dunia, ketagihan, sana kerja lebih keras buat memenuhi kebutuhan itu, jangan malah seenaknya begini begitu, jangan seenaknya mengkambinghitamkan bidang keagamaan dan tokoh agama.

TETAP BERAGAMA! . Orang beragama percaya adanya setan penambah galau. Mengurangi galau bisa pakai cara berdoa (GRATIS!), curhat (GRATIS!), ingat/cari orang senasib (GRATIS!). Bisa juga pakai cara dunia (BELI!) . Orang MEMILIH gaya hidup mewah, dunia, ketagihan, sana kerja lebih keras buat menuhin kebutuhan itu, jangan malah seenaknya begini begitu, apalagi ke bidang keagamaan dan para tokoh agama, seenaknya mengkambinghitamkan agama dan tokoh agama.

Early in my career, during my first few years at Oracle, I defined my success by making money and achieving power. By my early thirties, however, I realized that these superficial achievements did not provide real meaning or true happiness. Despite a list of impressive titles and a pile of material possessions, I felt that something was missing, and began to consider my place in the world and how I could make a difference.

joy isn't found in the material objects surrounding us but in the inner recesses of the soul.

What they sought in the first instance was moveable wealth – gold, silver and slaves.

In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.

She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

We fear more than the loss of anything else the disappearance of possessions that have remained outside ourselves, because our hearts have not taken possession of them.

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.

Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor.

Nothing dollarable is safe.

The commercial edge of so-called progress has cut away a huge region of human tissue and webbing that held us in common with one another.

Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

this life. We're just a bunch of meat. When we think something, it's just chemicals. When we love something, it's more chemicals. When we die, all the chemicals go back in the ground, and that's it. There's nothing left. You don't go anywhere, except in the ground. No heaven, no hell, no God, no nothing. Just . . . nothing.

love of money is the root of all evils.' Timothy, six-ten.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.