I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. — Leonard Ravenhill 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
“There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I talk about love, forgiveness, social justice; I rage against American materialism in the name of alturism, but have I even controlled… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
“Each of these imperatives has a tendency to degenerate into an excuse for greed and materialism in the absence of the other.… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what the bourgeois and liberal polemics claim, the warrior idea may not be reduced to materialism, nor is it synonymous… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that ordinary people in the Culture really wanted the war, no matter how they had voted. They had… — Iain M. Banks 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… — John Piper Copy Share Image
![“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]” quote by Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eba/alexander-pope-235_contempt_we-may-see-the-small-value-god-has-for-r_1511993.png)
![“[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/008/anonymous-1_academic_m-an-has-been-accustomed-ever-since-he-w_984135.jpg)
