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Materialism Quotes

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more"

"I do not read advertisements I would spend all of my time wanting things"

"I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it’s not about the ring and it’s not about the wedding. It’s a grave thing, getting married. And it’s easy to get swept up in the wrong things."

"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but their social being that determines their consciousness"

"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."

"Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you."

"Religion is the opium of the masses."

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are a burden and a torment to him."

"It is not the man with too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more."

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

"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."

"Our society is definitely one in which the power of the dollar is stronger than the laws and morals of mankind."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing "

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction "

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