Quotes About Materialism

money so they say is the root of all evil today

Warum sollte nicht fehlen können, was man nie besaß?

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.

the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

Instead—out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need—we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory—a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase the same way we buy clothing and furniture.

neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even

From all your herds, a cup or two of milk, From all your granaries, a loaf of bread, In all your palace, only half a bed: Can man use more? And do you own the rest? —ANCIENT SANSKRIT POEM

He didn't believe in God, but he believed even less in cheapness. Besides, life's never been anything else except a brief, frightened, bewildered shopping expedition.

As you know, when an American sees another driving a Cadillac, he says to himself: 'One day I too will drive a Cadillac.' But when a Frenchman feels intimidated by someone else's car, he says: 'Why can't the bum drive a jalopy, like everyone else?

Living a minimalistic lifestyle is becoming more and more popular as people realize materialistic items hold no true value. Making memories that last a lifetime and forging relationships with the people you live with is a treasure that you can't put a price on.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

Mary Agnes had been saving her money for two years…and perhaps her parents had been saving up for her wedding for the past twenty. And it was over in five hours, with nothing left but an album of photographs and a reel or two of movie film and a dress that would have to be kept in a box with moth balls, and a million confused and blurred memories.

Love God and not the things of this world.

Trump, through his actions over many decades, has made it clear he can never have enough money, power, or sex.

Greed knows no shame

T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.

You can have everything in the world, and have nothing. Or you can have little and have it all.

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. Proverbs 13:7

Why am I here, says the silence, what have I done, echoes the emptiness, why have I ruined myself in this wilful manner, chuckles the money in the till, why have I been brought so low, wheedles the thoroughfare, to which the only answer was—The square gave him no answer.

Stalin knew that to get the Russian people to fight to the end with their backs to the wall, he needed something more than Marxist materialism. (...) What he did do was a characteristic Stalinist thing, he fetched the patriarch (of the Russian Orthodox Church) and one or two other prelates from the labour camp where they were languishing and brought them to the Kremlin and set them up in business again. It's one of those very significant incidents that tends to get forgotten.