Acquire Quote by Juliet B. Schor

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

— Radhanath Swami

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ…

— Randy Alcorn

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

— James Gustave Speth

Materialism lives outside the lines of my reality

— The Game

“Materialism normalized as abundance chains freedom, and renders life a cripple. True abundance instills content not clutter, Actual needs of life are rather little.”

— Abhijit Naskar

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step…

— John Updike

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

— Wole Soyinka

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal…

— William James

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

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate…

— Oscar Wilde

“Materialism is, really, a system of belief or behavior which considers material things and in particular the control and possession of material things as…

— Gabor Maté

“Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you feel more…

— Patsy Rodenburg