Materialistic Quotes

• Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Birthday, Peace, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

  Richard Pryor

  Beautiful, Nice, Struggle

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• But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Struggle

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Today

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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• We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

  Mitch Albom

  Granted, Loving Relationships, Involved

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.84, Broadway Books

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• To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Car, Passionate

  "Oprah Talks to Hugh Jackman". www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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• I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

  Victoria Beckham

  Birthday, Children, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

  Roland Gift

  Change, Nice, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

  David Platt

  Church, World, Christ

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2013

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• There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Men, Rights, Order

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• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Religion, Materialism

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Christopher Ralling (1967). “Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television”, Not Avail

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• If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Way, Drink, Ifs

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• When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

  John C. Maxwell

  Money, Winning, Focus

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed”, p.69, Grupo Nelson

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, even though I'm in fashion, I don't, like, do fashion. Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff. I just want to do whatever makes me happy...Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun...being a bit daft.

  Agyness Deyn

  Fashion, Fun, Laughing

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• Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Silly, Play

  Song: Muny, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Views, Psychology, Heuristics

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• 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.

  Sheryl Crow

  Family, Mean, Achievement

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• Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Economy, Made

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• I'm not a materialistic person.

  Marat Safin

  Persons, Materialistic Person

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". Interview with Jill Lieber, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

  Agyness Deyn

  Fashion, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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• The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Reality, Views, Facts

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• Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Money, Writing

  "Paul McCartney: One for the Road". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. February 08, 1990.

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• ‎In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Humanity, Risk

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