Materialism Quotes

"A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff." "Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become" "Lack of money is the root of all evil." "Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body" "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." "The more you have, the more you want" "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion" "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond." "Our nature is obscured by our ideas. We are infinitely rich, yet we keep looking at a room full of coins to measure our wealth" "Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them" "Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you." "The happiest people are not the ones with the most money or the most stuff, but the ones who have invested the most time in others" "What does peace mean in a world where the profit margin is the only value system?" "Another world lies beyond the world of money and power. It's on the other side of that thin membrane, and it's more real than all the stuff we see on the news." "We consume, but we are not satisfied" "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" "It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly" "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing " "The point is that you can't be too greedy " "It's not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the Gospel. It is a proud sensuous selfish luxurious church-going hollow-hearted prosperity."