Materialism Quotes

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The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us… — Raoul Vaneigem
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly;… — E. M. Forster
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your… — Aimee Mann
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed. — Sandy Duncan
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. — Logan Pearsall Smith
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt
...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 an… — Alan Watts
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema… — Russell Kirk
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of… — Velupillai Prabhakaran
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of… — Rudolf Steiner
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept… — Wojciech Kurtyka
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to… — Robin Boyd
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism.… — Afrika Bambaataa
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. — Herbert Hoover
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have… — Edward Wilmot Blyden
I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from… — Kerry Washington
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and… — Immanuel Kant

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