Materialism Quotes

"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer" "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." "Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you." "I wish everyone could become rich and famous so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything." "As a society, we're so focused on material success. But what really matters is the success the world can't see" "I want to make as much money as I can and then spend it. So I just buy whatever I want and I enjoy life." "I ain't gotta get naked for no tennis bracelet " "The more we value things, the less we value ourselves." "Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual" "Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having." "Too much money ain't enough money " "We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objects. Humanity has become a production of artificial experiences and sensations." "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor " "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." "It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." "There is no greater spellbinder of the mind than the chime of silver coins upon a begging plate." "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction " "If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?" "We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often." "We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in fancy apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things."