Materialistic quotes
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
"Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all."
"The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic."
"My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us."
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