Quotes About Materialism

I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

I've never bought a sports car.

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

Yes, the irreplaceables, the things you never use--those are what really matters. I've got a damask table-cloth, you know, and napkins to match for 24 people. I've heard it said that a woman's possessions are part of herself. If she loses her things, her personality undergoes a change

Helen recognised that she, and Edward, and Dorothy herself, for that matter, were not as others are when it came to possession. She seldom wanted anything. Edward was the same. Her mother had hated spending money, not out of parsimony but laziness. Whatever it was in the make-up of most people that responds to the sight of goods for sale had been left out, in their case.

The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.

The rise of the stricter forms of Protestantism had not yet inhibited the lavish materialism that seems to characterize Elizabethan society. This might be described as the first secular age.

I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.

the black elite here swan round in squadrons of the latest luxury SUVs, each of which is worth ten times this eccentric old thing.

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.

There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numberss are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes.

The wants of the primitive are few, since he does not envy what he knows nothing of.

The materialistic consciousness of our culture … is the root cause of the global crisis; it is not our business ethics, our politics or even our personal lifestyles. These are symptoms of a deeper underlying problem. Our whole civilization is unsustainable. And the reason that it is unsustainable is that our value system, the consciousness with which we approach the world, is an unsustainable mode of consciousness.

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.