Quotes About Materialism

Colui che più possiede, è colui che più ha paura di perdere.

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two.

Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

Greed builds a barrier that keeps us from becoming content with what God has given.

If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be on earth also, and therefore material things will rule you.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)

Westerners prefer sex toys so they can avoid playing mind games with each other. Conditioned by capitalism, they cannot share anything. They must hoard everything from their sins to their thoughts to their genitals. The sexual situation in the West is sorrowful nowadays, and that's why a country like Vietnam is the answer.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.