Quotes About Materialism

Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...

Robin was thinking, is this where single people end up, people without children to look out for them, without double incomes? In small boxes, living vicariously through reality stars?

I don't need to know her. I know her type. Rich girls spending their ugly husbands' money. They come to my shows. They want to be my friend. Gimme an honest hooker any day.

That's how the rich stay rich, ain't it? They didn' need it, but they didn' mind a bit more.

And remember, you can always want something you need but you don't need everything that you want.

Who covets more, is evermore a slave.

In the ages of faith a very inadequate grasp of religion would pass muster; in these searching days none but the humble and the pure could stand the test for long, unless indeed they were protected by a miracle of ignorance. The alliance of Psychology and Materialism did indeed seem, looked at from one angle, to account for everything; it needed a robust supernatural perception to understand their practical inadequacy.

Few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he'd seen most of them before, Caitlin was surprised to discover how many of the cases were still shrink-wrapped. "Why'd you buy them if you weren't going to watch them?" she asked. He looked at the tall, thin cabinets that contained the movies and seemed to ponder the question. "My childhood was on sale," he said at last, "so I bought it.

The love of money is the root of all evil." The lack of money is the root of all evil.

6:10) [T]he love of money is the root of all evil….

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

All of us are greedy to some extent.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it with a finger it had a queer iridescent quality not at all like real gold, not that I had much acquaintance with the stuff. I had always favored plastic and rhinestones.

Eventually I grew into a man who spent money I didn't have, buying things I didn't need to impress people I didn't like. What a poor way to live.

I stopped wearing expensive clothes, I kicked my addiction to six newspapers a day

spendeva denaro che non aveva per comprare cose di cui non aveva bisogno e impressionare gente che non gli piaceva. Che modo misero di vivere.»

People value their things more than they value their relationships.

Ironic. The less you cared about receiving the stuff most of us care about at work, the more you received it

They secure their identity by who they are externally. They evaluate their achievement by what they've collected versus by the character they've cultivated

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.