Quotes About Materialism

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

Possessions can be replaced - it's people that can't.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

My husband knows I'm not a big material person - we're very lucky to have lovely things, but I want a foot rub or to just sit and talk.

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

I always ignore money.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

I'm just saying—" "You're talking about Black Friday." He nodded. "They're supposed to be our friends," Aviva said. "But are they? Really?

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

Money won't buy you happiness. Money won't buy you love. Money won't buy you health. But the way I see it is--give me the money and I'll rent them.

Have you seen the well to do? Up and down Park Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare, With their noses in the air? High hats and arrowed collars, Wide spats and fifteen dollars. Spending every dime, For a wonderful time.

Le pire aspect matériel, et surtout moral, de la société néo-industrielle, ce n'est pas le travail, mais l'industrie lourde du loisir. Une dés-organisation des loisirs permettrait entre autres de sortir de l'impasse d'un développement touristique qui çà et là tourne au pandémonium. En effet, si les gens trouvaient chez eux ce qu'ils cherchent en vain toujours plus loin, une bonne partie d'entre eux ne cèderaient pas à la panique estivale.