Materialism Quotes

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing.

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

Matter is but the artificial division of energy.

Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.

It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.