Quotes About Materialism

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

Almost everyone wears rubber on their feet these days, but there was a time when it was considered cheap. Luxury shoes had leather soles, which were rigid and heavy.

I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other quantifiable measures, the desire to simply possess things trumps our ability or capability to make moral connections with people around us.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Love is more important than material possessions.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.