Quotes About Materialism

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.

What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.

I don't go to Delhi malls, because malls are the same everywhere.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

I've seen a lot of people in my life base their self-worth on what job they book or don't book, what car they drive, or whether they can afford a house deposit or not.

I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

I don't own anything designer.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

Money can be detrimental for kids.

The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

I'm a Taurus; I need a home.

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

carton of cigarettes would buy you a whole province here," an American officer reported, "and a suit of clothes would get you the whole island.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.