Materialism Quotes

My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds

Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help

God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.

You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell

An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair

I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.

Materialism is not having things, it is letting things have you.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

Three things are neededFor humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

Try not to say "I have" unless it’s not bought by the money. If materialism is a blessing would have not been sold out in streets

But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.

Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.

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?

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.

The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

The underprivileged are byproduct of society’s material progress.

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

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

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.

If you feel that you are going without go within

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

there is something beyond materialism that's called humanity and relation.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.

There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.