Quotes about Materialism
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
- John Milton
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
- Joseph Addison
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
- Herbert Hoover
Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
- Mary Baker Eddy
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
- Mark Twain
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
- Bob Marley
Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.
- Adrian Rogers
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
- Martin Luther
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford