Quotes About Materialism

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that.

Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all.