materialism Quotes

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.