“Materialism: buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people that don’t matter.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“I, along with millions and millions of other people, am the victim of a society which aspires to material success in order to fill the emptiness it feels.”— Sinead O'Connor, books.google.com
“But I was high when I finally had the chance to see, everything that's pretty ain't always good for me.”— Kid Cudi, genius.com
“It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikisource.org
“Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reach for the last one they had—but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way!”— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Dan O'Keeffe, Frank Costanza, Jerry Stiller, imdb.com
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“People often smile if you mention worshiping "idols," as forbidden by the First Commandment. "Ridiculous!" But if your entire life revolves around money--getting it, growing it, keeping it--then it has become an idol for you. "You cannot serve God and Mammon," says Jesus.”— James Martin, SJ, twitter.com
“When you first begin to make money and become a success, you say to yourself, ‘I'd better get all these things I wanted!’" because how fruitless it would be if you could afford these things and didn't get them. So you accumulate everything. And then you begin to realize that the materialistic things…”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.com
“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an…”— Friedrich Engels, en.wikipedia.org
“All those hippies who talked about free love ultimately had their heads turned by the materialistic world they said they didn't want to be a part of. They got fat climbing the corporate ladder.”— John Lydon, yorkshirepost.co.uk
“The material benefits of this world are fleeting & mustn't be clung to. Look to a deeper source for happiness.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“If you think communism threatens your individuality, it’s because your individuality is so commodified under capitalism you literally can’t envision constructing an identity around anything but participation in capitalism (material possessions, purchases, property, etc.).”— anarchyisfunandfree, 122mg.tumblr.com
“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-aging moisturizer? You make someone worry about aging. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them wo…”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“The biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a…”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that’s what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it–and have it repeated to us–over and over until nob…”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com