Materialism sayings

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◆ A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

- Lionel Shriver99

◆ It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

- Ellen Goodman99

◆ The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

- Louis C.K.99

◆ Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

- Philip Slater99

◆ If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ Money is a great servant but a bad master.

- Francis Bacon99

◆ The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

- Erich Fromm99

◆ How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

- Barbara Kingsolver99

◆ Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

- John Ruskin99

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

- Janis Joplin99

◆ Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

- Anthon St. Maarten99