Quotes About Materialism

If you're a humble believer set on doing your deity's will, then what are you doing spending the take on Lamborghinis and single malt?

Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art.

If your $99 printer breaks and you have to pay out of pocket to fix or replace it, this will not meaningfully change your life.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

new Porsche, some cash, and no doubt a condo by the sea had been her payment. 

The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses—to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

It's not as though you feel satisfied after collecting a certain amount of stuff. Instead, you keep thinking about what you're missing.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Money just draws flies.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.