Quotes About Materialism

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

I really like Kendrick Lamar. I'm still a Talib Kweli fan, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Common Sense - people who say things that are relevant to everyday life. I don't pay attention to artists that talk about throwing money away and the car that they drive.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

If you still believe that everything will be okay the moment you find a new girlfriend or boyfriend, get a raise, buy a new house or car, then it is not yet time for yoga. Once you've tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready. So now, yoga.

The only condition necessary for us to break out of our material limitations and attain spiritual life is that we accept the life-giving warmth of God's spirit, just as the chick receives its mother's warmth. Without that warmth, we will not take on the nature of the Spirit, and we may die without ever hatching out of this material body.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

For what is worth in anythingBut so much money as 'twill bring?

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar.

She confessed once in a television interview that she would rather "weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.

If you ever forgot that money did not buy what mattered in life, New York pizza would remind you.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.