Quotes About Materialism

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

It kind of gets to you--all the waste. I can remember playing in the All-Star games, and how they'd have four or five pairs of shoes waiting for you. You go in there, grab a pair, wear them for the game, and leave the other four pairs lying there. How many kids in America could have used those shoes?

After all, in spite of the vulgar materialism of our day, we do feel that the spiritual side of life is the most important, and brings the only true joy. And friendship in its essence is spiritual. It is the free, spontaneous outflow of the heart, and is a gift from the great Giver.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Whoever said that money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping

Nous tuons des gens par millions dans le but de vendre des Big Mac et des Cadillac aux survivants. [...] Morts pour rien - ou, pour mieux dire, morts au nom du travail. Or, le culte du travail ne mérite vraiment pas qu'on meure pour lui.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

Money can't buy you life

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't.

Non-possession" does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.

I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now, you don't see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk, the tired joke. I've tried them all out but I'll tell you this ... idealism is under siege beset by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference. Baggism, Shaggism. Raggism. Notism, graduationism, chismism, I don't know. Where's John Lennon when you need him?

I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

A young lady can only look charming at so much per yard. A pretty miss in calico is a lovely woman in silk; and a charming girl in muslin is an angel in satin. At least she thinks so, and who would contradict a lady?

Even here, out in the supposed sticks, the strip malls dominated. There were all the customary mega-stores—the Chef Central, the Home Depot, the Old Navy—the country uniting in bloated monotony. The

It will hurt if you justify your choices based on material rewards.

In 1950 the United States—with just 9.5 per cent of the world's population—was consuming 50 per cent of the world's raw materials.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.