The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate! — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues more warnings about materialism… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
My definition of prosperity would be quite different than what most people probably imagine or think, because I think that a wholeness… — Paula White Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as… — Bryan M. Litfin Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.” — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“People are growing fast in race of materialism rather than socialism, that is dangerous for natural mutual love, care, feeling, sacrifice, sincerely,… — Arbab J. Edhi Copy Share Image
“Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism. — Atlee Copy Share Image
“Ours is a visual world with citizens who delight in those who appear good or gifted or great. Thus, we find it… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“To be serious about an idea, one must push it to its most extreme consequence and conclusion. Are moderns serious about the… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/43c/heloise-27050_affection_i-t-is-not-by-being-richer-or-more-power_726871.jpg)
