Quotes About Materialism

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.

I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

Well, I like cars. Just because you have two it doesn't make you flash.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

The kind of crazy amount of fan following that I achieved from 'Ek Hazaaron Mein' was amazing. We used to get i-Pads as gift, Abercrombie and Fitch dresses from America. I had everything in the world.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

Made a fortune, made millions but it's not everything.

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I had money, they expected one thing or the other from me, which they didn't before.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

Tom y Daisy eran criaturas desconsideradas: hacían añicos las cosas y personas y luego volvían a sus dinero o a su enorme desconsideración, o a lo que fuese que los mantenía unidos, y dejaban que otros se encargaran de limpiar lo que ellos ensuciaban.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

A volte coloro che erano supremamente ricchi diventavano depravati. Ciò derivava dalla loro convinzione che il denaro (il potere) potesse comperare tutto e tutti. E perché non avrebbero dovuto crederlo? Lo vedevano accadere tutti i giorni. Era facile credere negli assoluti.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.