Quotes About Materialism

Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured. Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best the earth affords.

That is good. And what do you do with the rental?' "I do have a great feast with honey and fine wine and spiced cake. Also I have bought me a scarlet tunic. And some day I shall buy me a young ass upon which to ride.

Oh, mansion shmansion. Did Gandhi's house have the largest outdoor trampoline in the tristate area? Did Jesus have a two-acre remote-controlled car track, with mountains to scale and a little village that lit up at night? Not in his Bible.

We have SUVs and PlayStations and plenty to eat, we roam the earth expecting respect and receiving it, for we are the American Middle Class, and we shall live out the full measure of our days amidst happiness and plenty.

What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life.

Sucumbían perante os signos da riqueza: amaban a riqueza en vez de ama-la vida.

Naquel mundo que era o seu, era case obrigatoria desexar sempre máis do que se podería adquirir. Non eran eles quen o decretaran; era unha lei da civilización, unha situación de feito, da cal a publicidade en xeral, os grandes almacéns, a arte dos escaparates, o espectáculo da rúa, e mesmo, en certa medida, o conxunto das produccións comunmente chamadas culturais, eran as expresións máis fidedignas.

I have worked out that I am virtually Chinese, because everything I own is from China.

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

Up to now, economic development has always meant that people, instead of doing something, are enabled to buy it... Economic development has also meant that, after a time, people must buy the commodity because the conditions under which they could get along without it had disappeared from their physical, social, or cultural environment.

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

It's a little weird: you're headlining a show on TV, and obviously, people like to associate that with material things. I drive a - what is it - 1999 Chevy Blazer. There's no more cushion on the driver's seat, and the tires are about gone.

I'm not a materialistic person, to be honest. I'm all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don't know what it means to lose anything.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

Nick made me give away my Hello Kitty TV, my Hello Kitty microwave and my Hello Kitty toaster. I got to keep the Hello Kitty cordless phone.