Quotes About Materialism

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)

People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long. It's just a stupid dopamine hit

People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long.