Quotes About Materialism

I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

Pronto comprendí que el alcohol, el tabaco y las prostitutas eran un método excelente para librarme del miedo a los seres humanos, aunque fuese sólo por un momento. Y llegué a la conclusión de que para conseguir esos momentos valdría la pena vender hasta la última de mis posesiones.

Greed did not cover it, nor did vanity. Nor was it simply a combination of lust and greed. I wasn't sure what it was, but I felt that there was something inexplicable at the bottom of human society which was not reducible to economics.

Horiki mostraba hacia los objetos de su casa una posesividad que alcanzaba hasta los cordones del cojín. Pensándolo después, a Horiki no le había costado ni un céntimo el divertirse conmigo.

I don't know about life," he replied, "but the world's nothing but sex and greed.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

It was a question of steering Christian dogma between the Scylla of pantheism and the Charybdis of materialism and its logical conclusion, scepticism.

Perhaps we don't respect things because we have so many of them.

Achieving success, status, and wealth is not a measure of life. Nor is becoming a religious or spiritual paragon of things holy.

Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.

Today, the belief in progress, necessary for life in a Godless universe, can no longer be sustained, except, perhaps, in the Silicon Valley mansions of baby-faced millennials.

Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated world, of the Western European eighteenth-century dream of a universally secular, materialist and peaceful civilization.

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life.

is not a voracious capitalism but the spiritual insight that we cannot buy the identity and security we seek.

Avec l'argent, nul n'est à l'aise : ceux qui croient le détester l'idolâtrent en secret. Ceux qui l'idolâtrent le surestiment. Ceux qui feignent de le mépriser se mentent à eux-mêmes. Engouement

If you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away.

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.

We have chosen a problematic name for ourselves: we are no longer souls as we once were, not even citizens; we're all consumers now, grasping all the stuff every which way.

the tip-off indicators of fear and shame: resentment and anger (blaming your shame or fear on someone else); materialism (providing illusions of status for a man and security for a woman); people pleasing (doing things detrimental to the self to gain the admiration or approval of others); obsessions (thoughts you can't get out of your mind); and compulsive behavior like impulsive shopping, overeating, and binge drinking.