Motivational Quotes

Materialism

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Materialism

1.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Marcuse, Herbert

2.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

3.

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Vaneigem, Raoul

4.

The best things in life aren't things.

Buchwald, Art

5.

Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, Now, let's write a swimming pool.

Mccartney, Paul

6.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Hesiod

7.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Forster, Edward M.

8.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Debord, Guy

9.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

Vaneigem, Raoul

10.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

Cook, Robert A.

11.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Persius

12.

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

Russell, Bertrand

13.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Fromm, Erich

15.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Clark, Frank A.

16.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Keynes, John Maynard

17.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

Jacobsen, Henry

19.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

20.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.

Quarius

21.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

Updike, John

23.

Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.

24.

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Horton, Doug

26.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

Mccarthy, Mary