Degenerate Quote by Brooks Atkinson

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

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease…

— Henry Ford

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing…

— Alan Watts

Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail…

— Juliet B. Schor

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

Materialism isn't the panacea that so many people think it is.

— Pernell Roberts

We must get out of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a…

— Shirley MacLaine

Materialism is an identity crisis.

— Bryant H. McGill

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 is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

— Radhanath Swami

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

— Wole Soyinka