Quotes About Materialism

If your thoughts, your plans, your purposes, are all directed toward the accumulation of the things of earth, your anxiety, your study, your interests, will all be centered upon the world. The heavenly attractions will lose their beauty.... Your heart will be with your treasure.... You will have no time to devote to the study of the Scriptures and to earnest prayer that you may escape the snares of Satan....

Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint

No se puede vivir del aire, ni entregarse a una espiritualidad que no permita el retorno a los placeres prosaicos

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Avarice is reprehensible acquisitiveness, excessive and insatiable desire to acquire or possess more wealth, riches or material gain than one needs or deserves. In other words, avarice is the highest level of greed or greediness. Now listen up, wealth or success is good and worthwhile too. But, you should not quest for it desperately, fraudulently or dubiously. Besides that, genuine wealth or success is meant to be acquired or achieved overtime and not at all overnight. -Emeasoba George

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

In reverencing wealth we reverence not a man, but an appendix to a man.

Idealists of all schools, aristocrats and bourgeois, theologians and metaphysicians, politicians and moralists, religionists, philosophers, or poets, not forgetting the liberal economists—unbounded worshippers of the ideal, as we know—are much offended when told that man, with his magnificent intelligence, his sublime ideas, and his boundless aspirations, is, like all else existing in the world, nothing but matter, only a product of vile matter.

I watch the men in the hospital, in the streets--some of these men are pretty awful people, they really are slimy sewer scum, do anything to pay down on the car, to meet the damn car payments--they don't care about women, or men, or nobody. It just seems so hopeless.

We now know too much about matter to be materialists.

Parking was well on the way to becoming the British population's greatest spiritual need.

Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode.

The modern god,--the only god in whom faith is preserved,--money, is here, in all its power, manifested in a single countenance.

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.

Gold is the spiritual basis of existing society.

We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

Money is a sign of poverty.

He knew he was being over-optimistic, for no necklace, however magnificent, however expensive, could compensate a woman for losing him.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

I shop therefore I am.

Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig.