Quotes About Materialism

But—damn it all—why does money have to be the marker of a man? That was the thing about America he most despised, measuring existence by the size of one's pile.

It is the soulless American who has no heart, who has no thought beyond putting a mighty dollar out at mighty interest, who has no zest for any other book than his soulless ledger.

Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

I didn't have Cartier. I didn't have Gucci, Louis, none of that.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.

I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

I don't fetishize objects.

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

I feel like, as far as streetwear goes, man, Play Cloths sits at a top-tier of quality, and your idea of luxury should not stop where you feel like you're at the obvious.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.

The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have

For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

Hafid, so far as material wealth is concerned, there is only one difference between myself and the lowliest beggar outside Herod's palace. The beggar thinks only of his next meal and I think only of the meal that will be my last. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.