Quotes about Materialism
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
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
— Pope Francis
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
— Victor Hugo
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
— Khalil Gibran
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
— Andrew Carnegie
It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
— Adrian Rogers