Quotes About Materialism

Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, hey, I haven't ever met a trophy wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.

many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." On the other hand, any true enjoyment serves to make us feel more deeply connected with everything else. Enjoying good food, music, sex, and books, enjoying pleasant physical surroundings and beautiful things, traveling to interesting places—all these enrich and enliven us. In the West, spirituality has been long

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

The only number that would ever be enough is 0.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

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.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

the innate tendency of a society of consumers to instil in their members a willingness to accord other people the same - and no more - respect as they are trained to feel and to show to consumer goods, the objects designed and destined for instantaneous, and possibly untroubled satisfaction, with no strings attached.