Quotes About Materialism

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, written during his year in a one-room cabin with few possessions, is this quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

He moved into the left lane, rolled down his window, and tossed all of Alessandra's new clothes and her shoe out of the car. "Oh, my God!" She spun in her seat, watching as her clothes hit the ground seventy-five miles an hour, getting caught in the brush. "Oh, my God!" She stared at him, aghast. "Why did you do that? Are you completely out of your mind?

Haven't you heard? Money doesn't buy happiness. Just really nice cars.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

People first, then money, then things.

Material Nondualism, a materialistic worldview in which Spirit (or soul) is rejected, and Matter (or body) is all that is said to exist.

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil

If you can't love me in my rugs, you don't deserve me in my riches

No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.

I would love to be loved for what I am, and not for what I have!

HAPPINESS comes from within. To be happy is to know oneself. It's not in the material things that we own, it's the love we have and show to the world.

Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.

Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic".

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

Cuando un hombre se consume por el deseo de posesiones materiales y poder personal sobre sus semejantes, y olvida que su más grande privilegio en el plano terrestre es prestar un servicio útil a los demás, crea un arma de autodestrucción.