Quotes About Materialism

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Money lets you enjoy the finer things of life, but it doesn't change who you are. It magnifies and brings into fruition the things that you want to hide most. It is a mask for insecurities as well.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?

How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide of material wealth … men whose bank accounts are all they rely on for social position and influence.

Joseph's gift to Babet was considered one of the decorative "musts" of the day—a gold-plated rolling pin, designed to show that its owner "no longer made her own bread, but was financially able to endure the strain of purchasing ready-made loaves at the grocer's.

It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly.

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!

He got a lovely pair of trainers given off his mum for Christmas, best pair he ever had, but it was the nylon laces that he couldn't take his eyes off. They found him hanging in his cell!

to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size

overspenditis." Today, people can become infected with this condition from watching too much television, reading too many magazines and catalogs, or hanging out with free-spending friends. Unknowingly, Paul and Sara had been lured into believing that they needed to have and do all the things they saw their friends doing—whether or not the money was there.