It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Three things are needed For humanity to co-exist: Truth, peace and basic needs. Everything else - Is irrelevant.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness. — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
“The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“We can also take personal initiative to reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
“Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost always blame everyone but themselves for their miseries.… — Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D.,D.D Copy Share Image
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine.… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. In 12 years of education the most important lesson I… — Dominic Owen Mallary Copy Share Image
What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who… — Yisroel Dovid Weiss Copy Share Image
Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism. — Joseph Losey Copy Share Image
“materialist and a spiritualist accept the same definition of a crystal of sodium chloride.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.” — Bill Holm Copy Share Image
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
