Quotes About Materialism

I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became more alluring to me and to millions of others.

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

I'm liking coming to nice hotels, getting nice clothes sent to me - I got a pair of free boots the other day! It definitely makes a change from getting the 243 bus from Tottenham.

I've come to realize nobody needs what we sell. There's hardly a woman who needs another pair of black shoes.

I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

the more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.

Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.

ÈŠn mediul celor avuÈ›i, insaÈ›iabili, "interesul pentru art? nu e, de regul?, decât faÈ›a duminical? a l?comiei".

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Gold,silver,gems, fine raiment , a marble palace, well-cultivated fields, paintings, a splendidly caparisoned horse such things as these give one nothing more than a mute and superficial pleasure. Books delight us through and through, they converse with us, they give us good advice; they become living and lively companions to us .

The message is constantly displayed on television commercials, where the motive of keeping up with (rather than cooperating with) the Jonses is treated as an unquestioned value.

Contemporary materialism is not a solution but a stubborn refusal to face up to the problem.

It's material deprivation that starts all this off." "They've got dishwashers, Miranda," Billa said. "They're not examples of material deprivation.

Imagine six apartments It isn't hard to do. One is full of fur coats The other's full of shoes.

felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.

In the materialist conception, mind is the agent of the body; in the Freudian conception, as it gradually emerged through these early years of uncertainty, the body exists as a symptom of mental demands.

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.