Quotes About Materialism

Happiness is a myth,' Karla snapped back angrily. 'It was invented to make us buy things.

The size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Happiness is a myth, It was invented to make us buy things

Fear is a poverty of Truth, and Greed is a poverty of Faith

Happiness is a myth, Karla once said. It was invented to make us buy things.

Gold fires the eyes with a different kind and colour of greed. Money's almost always just a means to an end; but, for many men, gold is an end in itself, and their love for it is the kind of thing that can give love a bad name.

the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

Happiness is a myth, Karla snapped back angrily. It was invented to make us buy things.

of greed, which is the opposite of love.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?

I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I've also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I'd only worn once or twice, but I'm one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.

Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.

I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they've worn out. It's embarrassing, but it doesn't affect me too much. I shop when I have to.

I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.