“Cheapest of heart wears priciest of clothes, to cover up the stink of a rotten soul.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.” — Claire Cross Copy Share Image
“Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“The problem in today's world is that, People are used and Things are loved…” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
“Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way… — Kerry Washington 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
“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
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 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
I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is only by being ordinary you get to be extraordinary. Being ordinary does not mean being a robotic slave to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial,… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It's the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
What's the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids' heads? Taking someone else's girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
How can we recognize if we're falling into materialism's trap? Christ's words were direct and profound: "Where your treasure is, there your… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their… — Walter Kaufmann 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
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousness in the place of man, the most… — Karl Marx 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
“If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
