Quotes About Materialism

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

money brings confusion.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

You don't define yourself. The objects you own define you. Capitalism defines what objects you must have, so capitalism defines you. Why is it so hard to overthrow capitalism? – because it defines your identity. It literally objectifies you. Your identity is established not by who you are but by what you have. The objects you own are more important than your talents and your personality. Anyone defined by objects doesn't have any talents or personality.

Al??veri? merkezlerinde her ?ey, herhangi bir ?ey istememenin feci kabal??a girece?i hissini yaratmak üzere tasarlan?r.

As Schopenhauer remarked: 'With possession, or the certain expectation of it, our demands immediately increase and this increases our capacity for further possessions and greater expectation…to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is.

Wilde's definition of a cynic (someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing), and

Crystal and Starbucks had saved my life. Saved me from my pursuit of empty symbols, but also my anxiety about a fear-filled superficial life that hadn't been, in the end, helpful or even enjoyable for me

Marx had it backwards. In the US at least, it should be "Opiates are the religion of the masses.

I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

Traumatizing agents include the rise of mass culture and the subsequent diminishing of the individual soul, the spread of rampant materialism, and the rise of "connective" technologies that contribute to deep disconnections while "linking" people at surface levels of life.

The aftertaste of affluence is boredom.

We are acquisitive to the point of greed; ready to drop the bone we have for its reflection magnified in the mirror of the future.

Es ist mir egal, wie viel jemand auf der Bank hat - solange er kein Kind hat, besitzt er nichts von Wert.

Real joy comes when we get the right desire met - the desire for God himself, for a life led by the Spirit, fulfilling not our material desires but our deepest need, which is to be in a close relationship with our Creator. That is the source of true blessing. The only source.

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.

For these Muslims, the real enemy—the thing they fear and hate—isn't Catholicism. It's secularism. It's laicism. It's atheist materialism. They think of Catholics as fellow believers. Catholicism is a religion of the Book. Catholics are one step away from converting to Islam—that's the true, original Muslim vision of Christianity.

La carne del mundo es sustituida por su imagen numerizada; el ser de las cosas es suplantado por el gráfico de sus variaciones.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.