A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“80 percent of the things we buy, are not because we need them, but because our subconscious mind is trying to fill… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“More clothes, more cars, more cash, Just how much will you consider enough! Till you put a cork on cocky abundance, Not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism, which found man an object made up… — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx’s investigations. It is not the ‘belief’ in this… — György Lukács Copy Share Image
“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Your consciousness is an opening to the divine. When you're aware that all these cultural narratives are just fabricated illusions to control… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Counting your blessings on a private jet, doesn't make you grounded.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In English we say: the best things in life are free. In Naskarian we say: abundance without awareness causes sickness.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When your underwear costs more than your child's education then you are in serious trouble" RjS” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
