Quotes About Materialism

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

A woman is always buying something.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.