Quotes About Materialism

After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir.

And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history?

The spiritual values that are essential to human happiness are being lost or made to seem trivial. Everything is buy, earn, sell

Capitalism is a rational system, the well-calculated systematic maximization of power and profits, a process of accumulation anchored in material obsession that has the ultimately irrational consequence of devouring the system itself-and everything else with it.

The same phenomenon that pointed to a materialist explanation for spiritual and religious belief gave people an experience so powerful it convinced them of the existence of a nonmaterial reality—the very basis of religious belief.

the feeling of co-creatureliness with all things alive should enter our consciousness more fully and counterbalance the materialistic and nonsensical technological developments in order to enable us to return to the roses, to the flowers, to nature, where we belong.

the workings of consciousness are both more and less materialistic than we usually think: chemical reactions can induce thoughts, but thoughts can also induce chemical reactions.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

It is a sin to be poor.

Avarice is a deadly sin.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

I don't spend a lot of money or buy a lot of things. I'm not a car guy, and I don't need a boat or a Jet Ski.

I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.