Quotes about Materialism

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out all your stuff and playing with it or fighting over it.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.

The struggle of Islam, as Qutb had framed it, and as Azzam deeply believed, was against jahiliya -- the world of unbelief that had existed before Islam, which was still corrupting and undermining the faithful with the lures of materialism, secularism, and sexual equality.

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30