Quotes About Materialism

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Buying is much more American than thinking.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest

Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious

don't think that big mansions and flashy cars are what the Wal-Mart culture is supposed to be about. It's great to have the money to fall back on, and I'm glad some of these folks have been able to take off and go fishing at a fairly early age. That's fine with me. But if you get too caught up in that good life, it's probably time to move on, simply because you lose touch with what your mind is supposed to be concentrating on: serving the customer.

Our desires increase with our possessions.

The things a man hoarded revealed a lot about the man and what he valued.

Consumerism has become a hypnosis that keeps our culture immature, as it keeps us overly focused on ourselves and on material desires, instead of on cultivating deeper soul richness. Corn

Siempre odié lo que define la vida en ese lugar: el arribismo, el afán de figurar, el odio, la tacañería congénita. la envidia

People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.

It was full of luxurious trappings and shiny baubles, and that had blinded me to the fact that nothing about it was real.

This is the real meaning of the myth of Midas. It wasn't just that the king might starve to death through blind greed. It was that everything he touched lost its incomparable properties and turned into cold, hard cash.

What a strange place it was in which there could be no running water, no dishwasher, no computer, no telephone, no supermarket, none of the things she took for granted, other than the ubiquitous TV aerial, yet the houses were painted to look like jewellery boxes and the people in them clothed themselves to look like jewels.

Under the title of sarvodaya, Mahatma Gandhi designed a system by which human beings would minimize their material needs and maximize their quality of life through spiritual, cultural, artistic and human values.

Blind, materialistic leaders guide the blind masses, and everyone is falling into the ditch of repeated birth and death.

The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

You put a weasel in a forty-dollar suit, and you get a forty-dollar weasel.

We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.

If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.