Quotes About Materialism

for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

For, as I always like to say: 'It is not possessing something that is harmful, but being attached to it.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

you had to be reasonably wealthy and privileged to choose not to own stuff. He

Virgil was not a man to take time to look at the stars, not when he might miss a nickel on the ground in the process.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

Money can't buy life.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?