769 Quotes About Materialism

A life well-lived is not measured by material possessions or the size of the funeral turnout. The quantity and depth of laugh lines on the face of the person lying in repose in their coffin reveals a life's true worth.

A live well-lived is not judged on a post-mortem stocktake of material acquisitions. It is based on the number and depth of the laugh lines on the face of the person lying in repose in their coffin.

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.

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed its infinite connectedness with our categories, suppressed its spontaneous order with our pavement, reduced its infinite variety with our commodities, shattered its eternity with our time-keeping, and denied its abundance with our money system?

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?

In the vast majority of cases, what I ‘need’ is actually what I ‘want’ dressed in clever disguise.

My needs are less, hence my integrity is dangerous.