Quotes About Materialism

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

We have devalued the price of the things we need most to survive on a daily basis yet overvalued many of the things we can live without.

Instead of leisure being simply "relaxed activity," it was transformed into an opportunity for increased consumption—even consumption of leisure itself (as in travel and vacations).

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

People give up the earth for beauty.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

I might be ugly, but my cars are real pretty.