Quotes About Materialism

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

Never trust money more than gold.

But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card - because the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesnt take American Express

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions...

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have.

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions, was telling its story to Jesse the man of God as it was to the men about him.

The more one has, the less one desires.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

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

Not that I'm waiting with bated breath for your presents. I need your diamond brooches and bracelets like last year's snow.

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free." Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

The things we once thought of as luxuries soon become necessities (although, by the same token, our sense of well-being would quickly adapt to losing half our income). What we care about is not our absolute wealth but our rung on the ladder. Ruut Veenhoven, a leading researcher of happiness, says, "When we have overtaken the Joneses, our reference drifts upward to the Smiths, and we feel unhappy again.