Quotes About Materialism

What do you want for Christmas?' 'A loaded revolver.

The only consolation I had was buying things. If I bought some pretty thing it cheered me up for a while.

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.

Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but see how crass and vulgar it is when there's none of it in your pocket.

Money makes the man a beast.

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.

There's no way we can raise a positronic brain one inch above the level of perfect materialism. "We can't, damn it, we can't. Not as long as we don't understand what makes our own brains tick. Not as long as things exist that science can't measure. What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.

All her troubles were caused by her madness for clothes. She simply could not think about anything else.

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.

After love, the worst fixation is gold

La riqueza envilece el alma, complica la existencia y engendra infelicidad, sostenía.

People come and go, and even the closest members of the family eventually disperse. It's useless to cling to anybody or anything because everything in the universe tends toward separation, chaos, and entropy, not cohesion. I have chosen a simpler life, with fewer material things and more leisure, fewer worries and more fun, fewer social commitments and more true friendship, less fuss and more silence.

Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No

He optado por una vida simple, con menos cosas materiales y más tiempo ocioso, menos preocupaciones y más diversión, menos compromisos sociales y más amistad verdadera, menos bochinche y más silencio.

la peor pobreza es la de cuello y corbata, porque hay que disimularla

Por qué vivía así, si le sobraba el dinero? -gritó Esteban. -Porque le faltaba todo lo demás -replicó Clara dulcemente.

La base del budismo es la compasión hacia todo lo que vive o existe. Dijo que cada uno debe buscar la verdad o la iluminación dentro de sí mismo, no en otros o en cosas externas. Por eso los monjes budistas no andan predicando, como nuestros misioneros, sino que pasan la mayor parte de sus vidas en serena meditación, buscando su propia verdad. Sólo poseen sus túnicas, sus sandalias y sus escudillas para mendigar comida. No les interesan los bienes materiales

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

It means zero to be against greed.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.