Material wealth Quote by Anthon St. Maarten

“The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this…

— Henry James

“The basis of spiritual renewal is not the guilt feelings that frequently arise in sensitized individuals in rich industrial societies. Instead, it is a…

— Dorothee Soelle

“I am amazed at the heart of man: It possesses the substance of wisdom as well as the opposites contrary to it ... for…

— Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith

“I do not write this in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment of any kind, nor do I have any romantic attachment to…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Physical comfort--materialism, if you like--is the enemy of any serious spirituality, I think. When we're warm and well fed, our souls can be empty…

— Lucinda Riley

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most…

— Felix Adler

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for…

— Dalai Lama

“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he…

— Christopher Morley