Richard Flanagan Quotes

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

False values begin with the worship of things.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

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

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.