Economic Quote by Anonymous

Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for…

— Robert Wuthnow

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

— Fidel Castro

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What…

— Jacob Needleman

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's…

— Louis O. Kelso

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy…

— Alice Walker

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

— Isaac

We must get out of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful…

— David Bentley Hart

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use…

— George Monbiot