Quotes About Materialism

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

I don't want a Lamborghini. Even if I was given one, I'd be like one of those people who won the speedboat on 'Bullseye' and have it in Exchange & Mart within 48 hours.

Wearing shoes, clothes, and other accessories made out of exotic skin is as cold-blooded as it gets.

I wasn't interested in anything at school apart from making sure I had the latest fashion on my body and making sure that I had a bit of dollar.

I never wear leather.

The more we have the less we own.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

I've had about 40 cars in my lifetime, maybe more, from Lamborghinis and McLarens to Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, but I always lost so much money.

I have Louis Vuitton everything. I'm obsessed.

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.