Quotes About Materialism

Motherfucker was like three hundred years old, but because he had a car and a record collection and foto albums from his Vietnam days and because he bought her clothes to replace the old shit she was wearing, Nilda was all lost on him.

These days, most poor families in the West have cell phones, televisions, washing machines, and cars. Their

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitude. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.

these two people who had everything money could buy but the one thing that could be given freely: love.

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

We hold that you can't own anything that four strong men can't lift.

Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.

This is how you know you aren't young any more: you start to care more about thread count than immediate gratification.

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

I ain't going to buy no iPhone.

Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

I bought a Burberry jacket that I call my Chris Martin jacket. It's a bomber and was very expensive - there are just two in the world - and I felt very guilty.

I don't actually know the most expensive thing I've ever bought. It would probably be a jacket, because I don't really spend that much on any other things.

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.