Quotes About Materialism

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels.

Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels,

How can I lose something I have never owned?

You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night,

In our wholly factitious society, to have no cash at all means frightful want or absolute powerlessness.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

She wants to live simply and thinks luxuries little more than social display.

I find it very worrying that we don't talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a price tag. You cannot buy spiritual values at a shopping mall. An old-growth forest, a clear river, the flight of a golden eagle, the howl of a wolf, the vitality of a tiger, space and quiet without motors, TVs, mobiles — these are intangibles. Those are the values that people need, that uplift our spirit.

Buying food never did make sense to me. When I finally spend some money I prefer to have some permanent evidence of the expenditure. Doing it on something that is immediately consumed leaves me feeling cheated. For much the same reason, I suppose, I have never smoked. Buying something and then setting it on fire is incomprehensible. So

I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.

But it is America that has taken FWPs to a whole new level. It is only when such great material wealth combines with stunning spiritual poverty, reaching not only the upper classes but across once-aspirational middle and now even lower classes, that the true obnoxiousness of the FWP is evident. The art of the whine has never been more perfected.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

Le danger n'est pas dans la multiplication des machines, mais dans le nombre sans cesse croissant d'hommes habitués, dès leur enfance, à ne désirer que ce que les machines peuvent donner.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

Vulgar of manner, overfed. Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night; Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute, Ruled by boss and prostitute; Purple-robed and pauper-clad, Raving, rotting, money-mad; A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, A wilderness of human flesh; Crazed with avarice, lust and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.