Materialism Quotes

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.

Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

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 person's) last thought.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

The only antidote to materialism is giving, because materialism's all about getting. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time I give, I become more like Jesus.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the

He fetishized limits.

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

The less you need, the more you live