“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
“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
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
Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong. — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
“More clothes, more cars, more cash, Just how much will you consider enough! Till you put a cork on cocky abundance, Not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful… — Bill Moyes Copy Share Image
“Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Materialism is, really, a system of belief or behavior which considers material things and in particular the control and possession of material… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We need to make some dramatic, concrete moves to escape the materialism that seeps into our minds via diabolically clever and incessant… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
“In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“La vida ahora me enseño que el amor por las cosas, como todo amor no correspondido, a la larga se paga” — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world. — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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