Quotes about Materialism
He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
— Anonymous
Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.
— Francine Rivers
Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?
— Frank Herbert
If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.
— Frank Herbert
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
They do not realize that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.
— Andrew Murray
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
— Scott Hahn
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity.
— John Bunyan
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
— John Bunyan
That the covetous wants that which he has, as well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is the slave of his own wealth.
— John Calvin