Quotes About Materialism

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses.

People look at Instagram and say they want money, they want this, they want that.

People want the security, the insurance, the 401K, and all that stuff and it's all crap, OK. There is no such thing as security. What you've got is right now - you don't have tomorrow; you don't have next week. You have right now.

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.

How could they all just casually drink Coca-Cola when one sip, and it tasted like musty trunks? How on earth could anyone eat a hamburger unless they were starving?

there was no point in owning anything in L.A. . . . in this she had a curious premonition or grasp of 'place.

At that time, Haily, like the eighties to come, believed in too much, and like most of those women who think you can't have big enough closets, she still didn't look that great. Or at least she never looked kind and beautiful like Kate. She looked mean and stylish, as if she were supposed to be beautiful and you should take her word for it. From afar, she looked a lot better than close up. Sort of like America

This sense of 'place' -- that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

I started thinking about how it's actually hard to love Barbie the way she is now. She is very tough, so much plastic. She's not cuddly at all. She can't even put her arms around you. You have to do things for her: worship her, dress her, buy her things. She wants everything. She is very greedy and needy. That's how they get you to spend more money.

Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

No picture is made to endure nor to live withbut it is made to sell and sell quicklywith usura, sin against nature,is thy bread ever more of stale ragsis thy bread dry as paper.

The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth.

Money didn't buy happiness, but it did let me have pretty things.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Because ownership isn't the important thing. If you want to be rich, it's the only thing. THE

We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool?s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

La actual crisis financiera y económica internacional debería enseñar a Occidente a evitar la autocomplacencia y desconfiar de su propio materialismo.

La felicidad máxima de Colombia no es el sexo, óiganlo bien, aprovechen que les habla un psiquiatra: es el Éxito. Comprar mucho en el Éxito haciendo la cola más larga y pagando con tarjeta de crédito.