Quotes About Materialism

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

At the end of the day I want to wear everything.

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.

I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

Of all the great empires the world has known, ours will be the shortest. Two hundred years of chasing the Godalmighty Dollar, and what do we produce? The A-Bomb and I Love Lucy.

We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.