Quotes About Materialism

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

You should never stay in a relationship for good closet space.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

any era that is dominated by the love of money only, has a rotten core within it and must perish

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

The covetous man is always poor.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.