Quotes About Materialism

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

Money is only congealed snow.

When we package the Dharma in a flashy box with no contents, we offer only the skin of Dharma. It might be better for authentic Dharma to die than to establish large groups and spew out teachers regurgitating sound bites like those that sell special transient mind-states as the Buddha mind.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

We all crave latitude in life, yet simultaneously dig ourselves deeper into domestic entrapment. We may dream of traveling light but accumulate as much as we can to keep us burdened and rooted to one spot.

Money. The trickiest substance in life--as it's the way we keep score, measure our worth, and think we can control our destinies. Money: the essential lie.

Wealth is not the locus of the sin, but the presence of the wealth is the locus of the temptation.

They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

As "voyeurs of billionaires" (Goolsbee, 2007) material excess has become our metronome of modern living.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes.

I swear these niggas gassed up, even though the price is high. I could own half as much clothing and be twice as fly.

I swear niggas be eyein me all hard and lyin to they girls and drivin the same cars.

Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.

If the eight worldly concerns are harbored within yet you outwardly appear as a spiritual practitioner, any material benefit you might gain as a result of such deceit amounts to wrong livelihood.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!