Quotes About Materialism

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.