Quotes about Materialism

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

The devil has some Christians in POW camps due to alcohol, drugs, pornography, fear, discouragement, depression, pride, narcissism, materialism, and a whole host of other problems.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.

i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.