Quotes About Materialism

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

You cannot serve God and Mammon.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.

He who is greedy is always in want.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.