Quotes About Materialism

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich

Over and over I thought we lack the pressures that make men strong and the anguish that makes men great. The pressures are debts, the desires are for more material toys and the anguish is boredom. Through time, the nation has become a discontented land.

What made 'em bad was they needed stuff.

Funny thing. I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy.

In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

Having riches ultimately means having few needs.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear.

It's not important to have all the best things in the world to be happy. Find happiness in relationships with people rather than material things.