Tulsi Tanti Quotes

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

People look at Instagram and say they want money, they want this, they want that.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

I always want more.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.