Quotes About Materialism

Cand eram copil, pentru mine, luxul insemna mantouri de blana, rochii lungi si vile pe malul marii. Mai tarziu, am crezut ca inseamna sa duci o viata de intelectual. Acum mi se pare ca inseamna si sa poti trai o pasiune pentru un barbat sau o femeie.

La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances.

nos sentíamos rodeados de cosas ausentes que tendríamos derecho a comprar más tarde.

la libertad tenía rostro de centro comercial

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's MasterCard.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Materialistic progress alone does not guarantee national security. What is essential is the character and integrity of the country's citizens.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

Cinderella is living proof that a pair of shoes can change your life, so I buy many pairs.

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.

You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.

People form strong attachments to their properties.

Property is a nuisance.

It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.

The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

The fact that I like to buy inessential things to make myself feel better is neither a secret nor something I'm particularly proud of. And I know I'm not alone.