“We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.” — Victor Bello Accioly Copy Share Image
The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
“Without death there would be no life, just like lions need to kill in order to live” — Thabiso Monkoe Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If we opt, over and over, to surrender our valuable energy and time to people and things that hold no real value… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The current “thrust” of materialism is to escape the earth’s orbit, to flee the knowledge and the problems of our messy, bloody,… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
“It is only when a company cares for its consumers as much as the consumers care for its products or services, can… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“No people in all history paid a higher price for freedom. And no people have done so much to advance the dignity… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
“She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and…so little vs. …so much!” — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
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