Quotes About Materialism

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. (201)

Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…

the snow of twenty-nine wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.

It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .

Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.

He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Para cualquier espíritu científicamente constituido, ver en una cosa más de lo que puede verse es ver menos la cosa en sí. Lo que materialmente crece, espiritualmente disminuye.

And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop.

Tens vontade de comprar O que vês só porque o viste. Só a tenho de chorar Porque só compro o ser triste.

Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.

O prazer é para os cães, o bem-estar material é para os escravos; o homem tem a honra e o domínio.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding...

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda siempre entre las manos

I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial

The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.