Quotes about Materialism

And they will say: “The fruit of your soul’s desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”

Funny thing is, there's only so much you can fill up with earthly things. There's an empty place and a void inside that only God can fill and some folks never figure that out.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no duty, no virtue, and no highest good.

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.