Quotes About Materialism

Recently I keep thinking that this isn't about the survival of a species. It's about why we're never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys.

Avarice is patriotic!

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.