Quotes About Materialism

Would you love money more than man?

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

People believe when you're richer you'll be happier,' he said. 'When you focus on the goal you don't commit suicide. But what happens when you get there and it's not what you expect?

The material world, as conceived by materialists, however, is continually confused with reality as such.

Materialism is adept at transforming illusions of possibility into settled verities.

Insofar as explanation fails to account for some salient fact, it is incomplete and its parsimony can no longer rightly be regarded as an asset. Indeed, the key failing of materialism, as we shall see, is that its parsimony is purchased at the cost of misrepresenting reality.

my atheism is a conviction not based on evidence, though it leads me to seek a certain kind of solution to the evident inadequacy of materialism.

On materialist principles, our minds are limited to the material constitution of our brains (minds transcending brains are simply not an option for materialism), and our brains are simply more complicated arrangements of balls going down inclined planes and coins being tossed. Thus we are not in control, we are not free.