Quotes About Materialism

we shopped and we shopped and we shopped, and now we're dying for a drink." She glanced at me. "From the look of you, you suffer from no such problem.

Today, our society is caught in the grip of superficial values—glamour, glitter, materialism, a pathological emphasis on youth, a neglect of the elderly, the handicapped. Families are being broken up under the impact of a frenzied desire for success. Violence is glorified and paraded in front of children every day on the media.

Chains are chains even if made of gold, they just tie you.

Chains are chains, even made of gold, they just tie you.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Because paper is a thing," I say, "and sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

So yes, in some ways, these would be enough for soap. But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough ?

These poor, rich men who, seeing that you can't be caught, attempt to buy a thing they know cannot be bought.

ain't much for listenen. Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

El objetivo de sus cacerías era poseer todo cuanto el mundo le pudiera ofrecer … y la única condición que ponía era que fuesen nuevos.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you feel more alive so you spend, spend, spend in the pursuit of happiness. For a short period the acquisition of clothes, shoes, a house, a car, a new kitchen, anchors your life into some place of meaning.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.

But money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

These models will recognize the inter-connectedness of all things, turning away from the mindless materialism and consumerism that has destroyed the ecological capital on which we rely.

That like the pigs, we all have our heads in the trough. While the hogs don't believe in God, the American dream, or the pen being mightier than the sword, they do believe in the feed in the same desperate way we believe in the Sunday paper, the Bible, black urban radio, and hot sauce. On

Both dudes wore khakis whose baggy leggings spilled over two pairs of Nike Cortez sneakers so fucking new that if they had taken one shoe off and placed it to their ear like a conch shell, they'd hear the roar of an ocean of sweatshop labour.

The rich-poor gap challenges our commitment to incarnational living. We will need to adapt simpler lifestyles before we go, to live with diminished material expectations in an effort to increase incarnational effectiveness. And the entire church, so accustomed to spending huge sums on their own comforts and conveniences, must be reawakened to increased generosity and sacrifice.32

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.