Materialism Quotes
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Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it. (Quote by - Anonymous)
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Christianity is the most materialistic of all religions. (Quote by - William Temple, Sr.)
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)
There must be more to life than having everything. (Quote by - Maurice Sendak)
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. (Quote by - Andrei Platonov)
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it. (Quote by - Roland Gift)
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. (Quote by - Arthur Erickson)
Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays. (Quote by - Sheryl Garrett)
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. (Quote by - Anonymous)
We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself. (Quote by - Miguel Serrano)
They're not materialistic and have adjusted well. They feel people are more important. (Quote by - Liz Perkinson)
Imagine you're an archaeologist and you're looking at an inscription, and you say, 'Well, sorry, that looks like it's intelligent, but we can't invoke an intelligent cause because, as a matter of method, we have to limit ourselves to materialistic processes, (Quote by - Stephen Meyer)
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. (Quote by - Guy Debord)
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca. (Quote by - Seneca)
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. (Quote by - Doug Horton)
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. (Quote by - Quarius)
The best things in life aren't things. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. (Quote by - Edward M. Forster)
The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality. (Quote by - Stephen Meyer)
Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay. (Quote by - Susan Harris)
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. (Quote by - Herbert Marcuse)
Oh, what a void there is in things. (Quote by - Persius)
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. (Quote by - Muhammar Qaddafi)
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing. (Quote by - Sheryl Crow)
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. William R. Bradford -Anwar El-Sadat. (Quote by - Anwar El-sadat)
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. (Quote by - Charles Edwards)
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God. (Quote by - Discovery Institute)
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. (Quote by - H. P. Blavatsky)
The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. (Quote by - Henry Jacobsen)
It also seems that both the young and the older people of our communities are interested in this product due to its spiritual and cultural nature. We are living in this materialistic world so the urge for spirituality is increasingly felt and is being renewed. (Quote by - Roberta Lacchini)
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. (Quote by - Arthur Erickson)
I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. (Quote by - Goldie Hawn)
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. (Quote by - Arthur Erickson)
Benefits make a man a slave. (Quote by - Proverb)
Gordon, his voice cracking, said it might be an oversimplification to say he was immature, materialistic and arrogant ... actions of an arrogant would-be master-of-the-universe. (Quote by - Gerard Lynch)
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. (Quote by - Adam Sedgwick)
Somebody said to me, "But the Beatles were anti-materialistic." That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, "Now, let's write a swimming pool". (Quote by - Paul Mccartney)
It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. (Quote by - Robert A. Cook)
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. (Quote by - Hesiod)
They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were. (Quote by - Cokie Roberts)
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. (Quote by - Jack Schwartz)
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. (Quote by - Victoria Beckham)
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
