Quotes About Materialism

We buy things we do not need to impress people we do not like.

Diogenes's quick wit and, dare we say it, cynical outlook disguised a first-class intellect focused on proving a single principle: that we have to own nothing, absolutely nothing, to be truly free.

to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

And let me tell you this: our higher senses are so blunted, we are so drenched with materialism, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it.

Compared to the life Jesus offers, mammon in any amount is poverty!

the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gibraltar, but you possess nothing.

How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord

w?a?nie reklamy s? najwi?ksz? przyczyn? porywania si? Finów na w?asne ?ycie. Czy warto ?y?, gdy nie ma si? za co kupi? tych wszystkich wspania?o?ci, jakie co chwila kto? im podtyka pod nos?

You would be surprised. There are people whose sense of identity at the end of life doesn't go beyond: I own this house; earn so much; have four children; drive this car; have so much in the bank and so on. Maybe such identity is not enough for you.

In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone.

Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

All the things they'd brought into this house; all of Elsie's things, packed up and taken away. A world delineated by this ebb and flow of items. The stuff of people's lives.

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

She spoke of those needing the white destroyers' shiny things to bring a feeling of worth into their lives, uttered their deep-rooted inferiority of soul, and called them lacking in the essence of humanity: womanhood in women, manhood in men. For which deficiency they must crave things to eke out their beings, things to fill holes in their spirits.

Nothing that is to be had in the world, anywhere, under any circumstances, is capable of bringing fulfillment

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of doing what you're supposed to be doing when you're a rapper. Walking around with cash that you haven't even provisioned for tax. Spending all of your time in the designer store to create some weird impression. I'm not interested, bro. I just like making music, and that's it.

You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

I've never been a label-obsessed person. I indulge in shoes, but I rarely will ever buy full-price.