Quotes About Materialism

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

That's the thing about wealth and power. Once you've learned to want it—that's all you learn. You don't learn satisfaction, you just want more. There's never enough. You'll never be rich enough, Johnnie, and you'll die in dissatisfaction.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them.

tanto con la riqueza como con la indigencia resultan peores los productos de las artes y peores también los que las practican.

Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Then you have sufficient indication, he said, that any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honors, either or both.

Women do not like to forgo the 'luxuries of life' and 'conspicuous consumption

After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini