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Quotes About Materialism

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.
~ Ray Davies
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
~ Richard Steele
Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
~ Holbrook Jackson
The covetous man is ever in want.
~ Horace
In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.
~ Jethro Tull
It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.
~ John Caird
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
~ John Steinbeck
Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real
~ Robert Mugabe
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
~ Bob Marley
They say money rule the world, you can't pay God with it
~ Meek Mill
Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts
~ Fabolous
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
~ Chance The Rapper
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.
~ Rumi
People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.
~ Meek Mill
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front.
~ Rick Ross
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
~ Clement Attlee
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
~ Gertrude Stein
Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.
~ Adrian Rogers