Quotes About Materialism

Os homens se esquecem com maior rapidez da morte de um pai que da perda de um patrimônio.

And all of them were obsessed with the appearances of the objects that served their quotidian needs.

Not everything, he said. Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This - he said motioning - is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

The more you own, the more it owns you, and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of having to take care of everything. I'm tired of things breaking and having to fix them. It adds stress, and frankly, I'm giving myself a break." In

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Multiple Bentleys isn't making anyone 'financially set.'

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really haven't done anything to earn them yet.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

We are young; we are naive with money. Money can go fast. If anyone thinks he is something better just because he has more money in the account, then he can very quickly fall on your face.

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.

to Tocqueville, and reiterated by Robert Bellah and collaborators in their landmark study of American life Habits of the Heart, this pursuit of what one does not have makes it difficult for people to form bonds with one another. Their minds "are more anxious and on edge." Because "they clutch everything," they can "hold nothing fast.

me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life—it's not worth living.

Money may not buy happiness, but it allows you to shop in better places for it.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of "mansions" as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics, just as there is no worldliness compare with ostentatious antimaterialism.

The Europeans hate us because we've retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms, eat symbolic meals, are symbolically entertained- and that terrifies them, that fills them with fury and loathing because they can never understand it.

Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.

In a society in which the dream of success has been drained of any meaning beyond itself, men have nothing against which to measure their achievements except the achievements of others.