Materialistic Quotes
186 quotes by 143 authors
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
— Lloyd Banks
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
— Victoria Beckham
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it…
— John Lennox
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It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of…
— J. William Fulbright
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to…
— Walter Isaacson
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power…
— Dalai Lama
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering…
— Charles Lyell
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The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.
— Edward Burne-Jones
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by…
— Albert Hofmann
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Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of…
— Brad Steiger
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The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I…
— Emma Watson
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's…
— Jimmy Carter
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I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had…
— Albert Einstein
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic,…
— Joan Didion
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My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want…
— Nikhil Banerjee
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My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those…
— Evangeline Lilly
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Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a…
— Joseph Campbell
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Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.
— George W. Bush
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Who Wrote These Materialistic Quotes
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