Quotes About Materialism

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

When you are young and strong you can be sure of springing free of your material envelope through your own vitality; later, any dinginess or fustiness may seep back into you

Where were all the normal cutesy playful nickknacks most girls her age had? There were no Mickey Mouse or Miffy Rabbit stuffed animals, nor posters of singers like Kazuya Kamenashi, or movie stars like Brad Pitt

What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.

the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The practical orders of life, while purporting to benefit man, serve in a profit economy to stunt human qualities, and the further they spread the more they sever everything tender.