Quotes About Materialism

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Money has yet to make anyone rich.

What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

For greed, all nature is too little.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Don't become so materialistic and mechanized that one day you stop believing in God's created nature and the natural beauty, Enjoy god gifted natural beauty to the fullest as you have only one LIFE!!!

What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

in these shitty plastic days ...