Quotes About Materialism

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there's less and less money in the music industry.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

While he sat there he decided he would buy a waterbed. He had always imagined owning a waterbed when he was successful, but now it struck him that getting the bed might invoke the man he wanted to become. You bought a waterbed and so became the sort of man who owned a waterbed.

Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

But you just keep wagging your pricey manicure and that horse-choking diamond bracelet at me. That helps make it all seem so much more right.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He

We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?

We have separated matter and spirit and through the power of this collective attitude have starved the world.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Beauty is only skin deep, but who gives a shit what's under their skin anyway?

Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.

Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.

The creature comforts were all a man cared about at the finish.

Han enseñado a la gente a necesitar demasiadas fruslerías. Me temo que el noventa y cinco por ciento de la población de Europa occidental aceptaría la destrucción del planeta a cien años vista si ése fuera el precio de poder seguir teniendo lavadora.

The fact that she had more clothes to sleep in than to go out in said a lot about her

Fifty Shades of Grey is only romantic because the guy's a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer, it'd be a Criminal Minds episode.

Just remember that money cannot buy you happiness (although it might make misery more tolerable).

And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis.

Beware of worldliness—it can turn your heart away from God.