Materialism Quotes

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All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it… — Pope John Paul II
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures… — Vance Packard
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism… — Robert Frost
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution… — Pope John Paul II
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that… — Bill Moyers
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. — Wassily Kandinsky
Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people… — Susan Harris
We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith,… — Miguel Serrano
The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality. — Stephen C. Meyer
People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as… — Peace Pilgrim
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing… — Theodore Roosevelt
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not. — Eugene Wigner
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and… — Henry Adams
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the… — Vladimir Lenin
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. — Vladimir Lenin
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give… — Bill Vaughan
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. — Erich Fromm
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. — Mahatma Gandhi

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