Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. Alfred Marshall
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? Lewis Mumford
Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good-and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man who has much will clutch it with his dying fingers. Michael Flynn
We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity. Coretta Scott King
We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. Jimmy Carter
It's better to have lots of children than to have lots of material goods. Vietnamese Proverb