Tracy Chapman Quotes

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

Ever wonder why billionaires always need more and more money? It's a power trip.

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

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.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.