Quotes About Materialism

I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

I would never sell my soul, for cars and gold

You are not the car you drive.

You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I have a car but it's not important.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.