Quotes about Materialism

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty" to remain independent of the enslavement of the material world. "Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things. This is our constant problem—how to live with people and remain free, how to live with things and remain independent.

Short is the way from need to greed.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

For those whose outlook is limited to the material realm, contentment and security must be measured in terms of material abundance. But for those who have learned to look in faith to God, there is another Source, inexhaustible and unfluctuating.

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.

When one no longer knows what one owes oneself and others, where the sense for human quality and the strength to respect boundaries cease to exist, chaos is at the door. When for the sake of material comfort one tolerates impudence, one has already surrendered, there the floods of chaos have been permitted to burst the dam at the place where it was to be defended, and one becomes guilty of all that follows.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.