Quotes About Materialism

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Money is a needful and precious thing

Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Money always ends up making you blue.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

This bank-note world.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

Prosperity makes few friends.