Quotes About Materialism

You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

Les places sont envahies de chaises en plastique et de parasols dédiés au dieu Coca-Cola.

L'argent est du songe pur. Le contempler, c'est faire défiler devant soi l'interminable procession des choses de ce monde.

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

There are many greedy and clever human animals in this world, but few human beings. Authentic human beings are so rare that I would even go so far as to say that we do not live in a truly human world.

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right.

But the Bible tells us in 1 John 2:16: "For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting

of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world." What the world has to offer will only fulfill the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. But God will generously provide all that we need.

There is very little that is natural left in people when they stray from the cities. Day hiking in Gore-Tex with a bag of trail mix and a cell phone in a fanny pack and a bottle of iced chai tea clipped to your belt isn't actually natural, it's tourism, or worse, voyeurism.

El amor no existe. Existe sólo un mundo que trabaja, que va, que viene, que gana dinero, que usa reloj, que cuenta los minutos y los centavos y acaba podrido en un agujero, con una piedra encima que lleva el nombre del desdichado.

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

Vanitas vanitatum: elective surgery, in other words.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

He'd never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending. Sitting by my pansy beds, with the slow clouds floating leisurely past, and all the clear day before me, I look on at the hot scramble for the pennies of existence and am lost in wonder at the vulgarity that pushes, and cringes, and tramples, untiring and unabashed. And when you have got your pennies, what then?

This embroidery has cost at least two marks the meter," she said to herself, fingering it. "She must roll in money. And the wall-paper — how unpractical! It is so light that every mark will be seen. The flies alone will ruin it in a month." She shrugged her shoulders, and smiled; strange to say, the thought of Anna's paper being spoiled pleased her.

I certainly prefer buying new rose-trees to new dresses, if I cannot comfortably have both; and I see a time coming when the passion for my garden will have taken such a hold on me that I shall not only entirely cease buying more clothes, but begin to sell those that I already have.

Families are going broke because they buy too much stuff!

Money, or the lack of it, pervaded the house as only something that is absent can

It is not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.

As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.