Quotes About Materialism

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

I don't care for jewellery and fancy clothes.

When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.

I'm through buying cars. I'm through buying jewelry.

I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

I'm not one of those girls who gets with somebody for the jewelry.

I'm not a big spender. I don't get into all the jewelry and all that.

If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.

After I win a contest the only thing I allow myself to do is buy a little bit of jewelry - but that's only if I win. And that's about it.

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

let it be—MONEY! Of course it was money. What else could it be? There was so much stuff he needed: a Mutant Max lunchbox, a Rapper Zapper Blaster, and, of course, the new Terminator Gladiator game he kept seeing advertized on TV. Mom and Dad were so mean and horrible, they wouldn't buy it for him. But he could buy whatever he liked with his own money. So there. Ha ha ha ha ha. Wouldn't Ralph be green with envy when

Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes.

Men are made unhappy not because they fail to gratify some fixed set of desires, but by the gap that continually arises between new wants and their fulfillment.

the concept of "amoral familism," whose code he describes as "Maximize the material, short-run advantage of the nuclear family; assume that all others will do likewise." Cooperation

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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Her avarice had grown to be her one dominant passion; her love of money for the money's sake brooded in her heart, driving out by degrees every other natural affection.

We're living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We'd rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.