Consumption Quote by Jonathon Porritt

We must get out of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the…

— Tino Sehgal

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease…

— Henry Ford

Materialism is an identity crisis.

— Bryant H. McGill

“Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you feel more…

— Patsy Rodenburg

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for…

— Robert Wuthnow

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

— Randy Alcorn

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What…

— Jacob Needleman

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

— Mario Cuomo