Quotes About Materialism

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'