Accomplished Quote by Leon Trotsky

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His…

— Sergey Nechayev

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

— Che Guevara

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow…

— Brooks Atkinson

Materialism is an identity crisis.

— Bryant H. McGill

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"...…

— Peter Drucker

“The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and…

— Thomas Paine

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a…

— Shirley MacLaine

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What…

— Jacob Needleman