“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
“To most women, size does count, but—if the man is rich, powerful, or famous—it does not matter.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Equally condemned, in wealthy Western nations, is materialism that degrades the human mind and spirit - that can, in fact, in an… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Worst of all carnivores are the humans, There is no end to their appetite. Animals no longer partake once they are full,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.” — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
“Society might favour able-bodied babies, but it is massively guilty of disabling those healthy babies once they are old enough to imbibe… — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the material world is too poor to satisfy our yearnings. This is how we end up with so… — Yanko Tsvetkov Copy Share Image
“It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of… — Novalis Copy Share Image
And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“It’s been said that love is all there is; that a lack of love causes people to do evil things. I can… — novelist J. Conrad Guest Copy Share Image
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
