Quotes About Materialism

The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.

Fa male vedere uomini e donne impegnati in una folle corsa verso la terra promessa del guadagno, dove tutto ciò che li circonda – la natura, gli oggetti, gli altri esseri umani – non suscita alcun interesse.

Pobre y desnuda vas, filosofía, dice la turba atenta al vil negocio.

Zenginler, hiçbir ?eye ald?rmama, hiçbir ?eyden heyecanlanmama lüksüne sahiptirler; bu nedenle çok ya?arlar.

Human beings are good at creating hells for themselves, even out of richness.

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.

Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar is forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol, - ourselves. Our God is great, and money is his Prophet!

estamos hechos de materia y al mismo tiempo somos ajenos a ella, que estamos separados de ella.

Maddiyata düÅŸkün olanlar duygusal olarak daha güvensiz, daha düzeysiz kiÅŸisel iliÅŸkilere sahip, daha içtenliksiz, özerklik duygusu daha eksik, kendine güveni daha düÅŸük kimselerdir. Çocuk iseler, kendilerini baÅŸar?lar?na baÄŸl? olarak seven, onlar? maddiyatç? yetiÅŸtiren ana-babalar? vard?r.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for. Some feel they have time but not enough money; others feel they have money but not enough time. But for most of us, in the midst of material plenty, we have spiritual poverty.

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

With the ability to produce more goods than people need, consumer capitalism has to make children into consumers earlier and keep them at it longer. Hence contemporary America, a culture of perennial adolescents.