Quotes About Materialism

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.

If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

you have everything. still, you have nothing . sad .

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Whenever I see all around, I see nothing except atoms & molecules

Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.