Quotes About Materialism

You don't win the Olympic to make millions. People are always like, 'Where is your Lamborghini?'

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

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

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?

Che cosa è un cinico? Un uomo che sa il prezzo di tutte le cose e il valore di nessuna.

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death. He saw that people should not be too serious over material, common interests: that to be unpractical was to be a great thing: that one should not bother too much over affairs. The birds didn't, why should man?

It's sad, y'know, what money does to people.

In a crass and materialistic world there must inevitably be a scattered few here and there in whom pumpkins touch no chord.