Quotes About Materialism

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek.

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth. I

They buy 'em here 'cause it's cheaper. You know how rich people are. Money sticks to their hands, 'cause it's the most important thing in the world to 'em.

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

Money can't buy everything." "Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?" "Oh, well, I don't know—not happiness or love, anyway." "Generally it can. And when it can't, it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

He sold his watch to buy her combs, and she sold her hair to buy a watch chain.

To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

By the late 1890s spending had become more than just a mark of status, a weapon for rising in society, a wish to be surrounded only by the best, a form of self-aggrandisement or even a way of giving pleasure to others, but simply an end in itself and even a validation of identity – I spend, therefore I am.

you begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are.