“All true needs–such as food, drink, and companionship–are satiable. Illegitimate wants–pride, envy, greed–are insatiable. By their nature they cannot be satisfied. In that sense, materialism is the opium of the people. Enough is never enough. Greater quantities are required for satisfaction, and each increment proves inadequate the next time. That is the horror of the giant in John Bunyan and the wicked witch in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia who give their victims food that causes even greater hunger. The idolatries that promise wealth without end draw adherents as the tavern draws alcoholics…That is the sense in which the love of money is the root of all evils (1 Tim 6:10).”
Herbert Schlossberg in Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture (Wheaton: Crossway, 1990) 107-108.