Materialism Quotes
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
In L.A. like there's a lot of like materialism and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress and in Oakland it's not like that.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality
Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.
