Quotes About Materialism

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

In life, we chase things like money and status, but there things have no lasting value relative to the soul. Only the soul has absolute value, which is why I believe it should be at the center of everyone's life

el que tiene dinero quiere más; nunca lo ha regalado y nunca lo hará.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

And I don't believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it "a day will come." And one day it will come. Well, probably it won't come, since they've always destroyed it for us…. It won't come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can't believe in it anymore then I can't write anymore either.

since the strong materialistic substructure that lies under most concepts of socialism seems to oblige socialists to reject nonmaterial phenomena out of hand and without inspection of facts.

a blue dyed Balenciaga mink and almost exactly $2,500,000 worth of diamonds—including a thirty-odd carat diamond in each ear and a 34.8 carat blue diamond ring (putting it just below the famed Hope diamond, which is 44.5 carats, and the 35.5-carat Wittebacher, which is on sale for $650,000. Contact J. Komkommer in Antwerp). …Childless, she spends 5 or 6 months a year in the U.S. (she has a 7½ room apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre)…

I got plenty of nothin',And nothin's plenty for me.

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.

He'd be much, much more in love with the little one if he could give her nice clothes and diamonds and soft furs… that's just the way it is: the more brilliant and impressive a role you can play for someone, the more you love them.

What you have, you don't need, and what you need, you don't have.

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.

They hungered after gold like pigs.

A heavy wallet is lined with tears.

Supposing it did come, some great trial, might it not cleanse us of our materialism, our cynicism, our lax lazy hypocrisies, make us gird our sinews and find simplicity again?

the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed and by the fear of losing it.

Take this single tree. They could cut it down and make half of it into an incense tray, decorate it with lacquer set with gold or silver filigree, and set it in an alcove of an aristocrat or man of high rank as a tasteful ornament. The other half they could make into wooden clogs for stepping through the mud. When you look at the two different shapes, one is admired while the other is considered mean, but they're the same in terms of the cutting down of a living tree.

El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá.