Quotes About Materialism

My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

A lot of people are obsessed with their possessions, but that's not right. It's OK to own a lot of things as long as you're willing to share them.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

I don't have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down.

I don't like possessions.

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

I don't own a watch anymore. Literally, that was an addiction. I'm not afraid to admit that. It took me over. My possessions possessed me.

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

Possessions aren't my raison d'etre.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

Affluence creates poverty.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.