Quotes about Materialism
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
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
- Zig Ziglar
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.
- Andy Stanley
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
- Virginia Woolf
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
- Henry Ford
The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like.
- Deepak Chopra
The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Money doesn't talk. It screams.
- Glenn Beck