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Quotes About Materialism

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
~ Will Rogers
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?
~ Stephen King, Needful Things
Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
~ Omar Khayyam
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
~ George Best
Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
~ Rita Davenport
Money!It's all about money!It's all it ever is these days!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you everything else. It's up to you to be happy with what you have or not.
~ Neo Shamon
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~ Albert Camus
There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
~ Stephen Richards
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.
~ David Lee Roth
Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn't bring happiness
~ Sunday Adelaja
Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God's greater purpose for mankind.
~ D.S. Mashego
I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.
~ Robin Sacredfire
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Money can only used to buy man-made goods.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you try to buy love, you will go bankrupt trying to possess it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
~ Criss Jami
Not easy, not at all for everyone to see the beauty of one's self/soul. It's all about money, nothing else.
~ Balakoteswara Panchakshari
All the material wealth cannot satisfy the soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.
~ Dorothy Parker
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
~ Sophocles, Antigone
Gold is the corpse of value...
~ Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon