Active Quote by David Hume

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

— Brunello Cucinelli

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality…

— E. M. Forster

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of…

— Charles A. Reich

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how…

— Karl Marx

We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who…

— Jonathan Ive

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions…

— Pablo Picasso

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

— Smokey Robinson

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use…

— George Monbiot

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

“Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

Things that are easily acquired, obtained, or maintained, without any effort or sacrifice lack value...it's human nature.

— Anonymous