Materialism Quotes - Page 4

Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

If every lover was treated like they matter - everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special.

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

If everyone wanted peace as much as they want a new iPhone, then there would be peace.

...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.

You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

The one who lives solely with the many, solely with the best, lives only as briefly as that which he owns, passes his tests.
The one living by his actions, and by his deeds, will live his full life owning the average, happily having them, filling his needs.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.