Quotes About Materialism

Will we act, or will we sit on our hands? I don't want to show up on that day only to hear God say, "This nation—where is My church? There's still too much sin, too much covenant with Baal, too much pornography, too much perversion, too much materialism, greed, pride, and arrogance. They have missed their hour of grace; only judgment awaits.

let us strive to turn our hearts from the love of things that are visible and concentrate on the things that are invisible.

She had done everything he wanted, and tonight it didn't matter. He was the man who preferred the empty room all along. Not these things, not these children, not her. He wanted his steak and his wine and his Scotch, and a young waitress he could bully to bring it to him, and after that, where he slept didn't matter.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,' " he said, quoting Wordsworth. " 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;/ little we see in Nature that is ours;/ we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

For example, your child needs food, shelter, and attachment. He needs warmth and security. He needs to learn he is capable and can contribute. He does not need a tablet computer, a television in his bedroom, a miniature monster truck to drive

As he rode along William thought about all that he had learned from Moses Amyraut. He saw how pointless it was accumulating so many possessions. A single spark could take them all away. No, he told himself, there were more important things in life than social position and an abundance of possessions for him to strive for.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz,My friends all drive Porsches,I must make amends.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

The Joneses, nine times out of ten, are financially stupid. That's why they have all that stuff, on borrowed money. Why try to copy them? Worse, why try to impress them?

uno quiere las cosas y a las personas según lo que tiene o no tiene

Ecco quello che rivela la nostra origine materiale, spesso passiamo accanto alla felicità senza vederla, senza guardarla, oppure, se l'abbiamo vista e guardata, senza riconoscerla

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough. Is that surprising? No. The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.

if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you cannot look through this collective delusion, you will be condemned to chasing after things for the rest of your life in the vain hope of finding your worth and completion of your sense of self there.

the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

Wanting keeps the ego alive much more than having. The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.

Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.