J. T. Walsh Quotes

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

False values begin with the worship of things.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

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

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

The current public aspiration seems to be: Get what you can. Can what you get. Sit on the can behind gated fences.

In no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States.

I already own more than any human being needs.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

I don't fetishize objects.

I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.

Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.