Quotes About Materialism

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Greed is permanent slavery

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

If you own a rug you own too much.

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

The more we take, the less we become.

This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.