Quotes About Materialism

Not even going to discuss this. I'm going to stay in my gold house and sleep on my gold bed and ski down my piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

The main ploy of the flesh is to slip worldliness into the mind under the guise of necessity.

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.

It wouldn't matter, remarked the educated Woggle-Bug. he can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Consumerism is our national religion.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Money has no religion except itself.

Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth.

As a rule, Americans are big on that word "choice" and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

Nunca puedes perder algo que es realmente tuyo, ni ganar algo que no lo es. El dinero aparecerá. Y si no lo hace, es porque nunca fue mío desde el principio".

All the girls, other than me, wanted the same things: to own a pair of stockings so their legs would not look bare and childish in their humiliating ankle socks; to have the best notebooks to record song lyrics, those sickeningly sweet words of dreams and loves and hearts; to be praised by the teachers, but more importantly, to be admired and envied by one another; to catch the attention of the right boys.

Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.