Quotes About Materialism

If you think you'll find intellectual stimulation, you're thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I've never been more bored by casual chat.

What color is your Bugatti?

What color is ur Bugatti

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

The pure and sinless did not exist, or else died unnoticed and with no obituary. The idea seemed persuasive. Those who merited obituaries had usually achieved things, fought for their ideals, and when locked in battle, it wasn't easy to remain entirely honest and upright. Today's battles were all for material gain, anyway. The crazy idealist was extinct – survived by the crazy pragmatist Ã¢â'¬Â¦

life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out all your stuff and playing with it or fighting over it.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

If you start to accumulate things, you can't travel, so I lived without. I figured I could live a whole life without anything,

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Y comprendió que muchas cosas que había dado por sentadas, muchas cosas que creía sencillas y domésticas, eran en realidad verdaderos lujos.

Prosperity and wealth have convinced us to be content in the world, and so we close our eyes, ignoring the world's need as well as its evil.

Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science.

Kissing your hand may make you feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever

I really think if I do not get the diamond tiara my whole trip to London will be quite a failure

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.