Quotes About Materialism

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

Néha úgy vélem, épp emiatt nem haladunk úgy, mint a nemzet többi része. Az emberek olyan sok idÅ't töltenek távol a munkájuktól mások meglincselése miatt, és olyan sok pénzt költenek kötélre meg kerozinra, meg arra, hogy elÅ'zetesen leigyák magukat, meg a többi szükséges dologra, hogy a gyakorlati dolgokra nem marad se túl sok pénz, se munkaóra.

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping cart.

There isn't a girl on earth who'd willingly give up her bangles.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

Don't go broke trying to look rich.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing. And when we believe it, perhaps it is true.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don't you see that's how Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank., but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?

happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

Even poor people in America had refrigerators, not to mention running water, flush toilets, and twenty-four-hour electricity, amenities that even some of the middle class did not have back home. Why, then, did I feel poor?

because happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game,

Credit is what enables people to pay 20% to 35% extra for that product which they probably don't need.

For the beggar, everything is always out of fashion.

He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.

He who never has enough, never has anything.

Man makes money, money doesn't make man but it makes monkey of him.