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"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."
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"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming."
"Isn't materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?"
"Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold."
"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
"The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism."
"People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a 'cemetery'? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?"
"For our radically misnamed "materialistic civilization must above all cultivate the love of material, of earth, air, and water, of mountains and forests, of excellent food and imaginative housing and clothing, and of cherishing our artfully erotic contacts between human bodies. Certainly, all these so"called "things are as impermanent as ripples in water, but what life, what love, what energy is there in a perfectly pure abstraction or a totally solid and eternally indestructible rock?"
"Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it."
"There is nothing around me but money, money, money."
"In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure."
"Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here."
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