Quotes About Materialism

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.