Quotes About Materialism

Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.

In these days, people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

Fridge full of food - Nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes - Nothing to wear. Internet full of sites - only on Facebook.

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources inspite of living in abject penury situations.

Something that is yours forever is never precious.

We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.

I don't need it but I still take the cars and the girls. Went from bout gettin' the money to about gettin' the world.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

I never had money, and I was very happy without it. When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on, for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Value those friends who gave you good memories. Don't ever change them for any material things in this world. Time has always taught us a lesson. Once you have disappointed them, you will hardly find a way to call an old friend when the time comes that will you need them.

It's Money who teaches us who's important and who's not, Even when you have it or you don't.

Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be happy. So when he grows up, he'll know the value of things, not the price.

Shopping while upset and emtional leads to alot of black being purchased...

Le désir fleurit, la possession flétrit toutes choses

He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land.

We have an inglorious knack fo accumulating stuff....an economic model of mass production and planned obsolescence that continues to hold sway. Whether it's because fashions change or because products are manufactured to fail, we're primed to buy as often as possible. The psychology of advertising has optimized the selling of stuff to every demographic. Eighteen-month-old children have an average repertoire of two hundred brands they recognize before the first grade.

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges." He

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.

The reason thereof is, said the Duchess, that they have too little Gold and Riches, which makes them so eager to have it. No, replied the Empress's Soul, their particular Covetousness, is beyond all the wealth of the richest World, and the more Riches they have, the more Covetous they are; for their Covetousness is Infinite.