“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.” — Victor Bello Accioly Copy Share Image
“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
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa 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
“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
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
“I do not think that under modern Western materialism we should have anarchy. I doubt whether we should have enough individual valour… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Neither materialism, nor spiritualism reveals the truth - neither atheism, nor theism reveals the truth - neither intellectualism, nor callousness reveals the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant.… — Peace Pilgrim 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
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have… — Alfred Stieglitz 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
To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Materialism is also associated with more anti-social and self-centred behaviour. One of the effects of a materialistic disposition is a greater tendency… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Those who cannot win trophies and medals, they create status symbols for themselves.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Economy that rewards selfishness, is but a glorified criminal offense.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If every lover was treated like they matter everyday; Valentine's Day wouldn't be so special. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. — John Searle Copy Share Image
