Quotes About Materialism

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

Greed has always been humanity's downfall

Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

High living can lead to low feelings