Materialism Quotes
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
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.
My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.
You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.
Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.
When everything gets too much, give some away
Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less
Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.
The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.
Listen to 'The Voice', not the choice
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.
*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed, * when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.
The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.
Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.
We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.
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It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.
Material possessions do not last, but memories last forever.
Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.
...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.
Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.
A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.
It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.
I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.