Quotes About Materialism

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.