George Carlin Quotes

If you own a rug you own too much.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

The more we have the less we own.

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

In no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States.

I already own more than any human being needs.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.