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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. -- Douglas Horton
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Materialism is an identity crisis. -- Bryant H. McGill
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. -- George W. Romney
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. -- H. L. Mencken
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. -- E. F. Schumacher
Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy. -- Radhanath Swami
Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. -- Swami Vivekananda
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Nancy Hartsock
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. -- Arthur Erickson
Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world. -- James Gustave Speth
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality -- Dallin H. Oaks
Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. -- John Searle
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not. -- Eugene Wigner
Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly. -- Honore de Balzac
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. -- Vladimir Lenin
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason. -- Swami Vivekananda
Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. -- Thomas Nagel
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. -- Idries Shah
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it. -- Brooks Atkinson
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him. -- Leon Trotsky
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. -- Nancy Pearcey
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope. -- William James
Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business. -- Suzy Kassem
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul. -- Rudolf Steiner
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. -- Andrei Platonov
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. -- Frank A. Clark
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. -- Swami Vivekananda
The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism. -- Swami Vivekananda
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. -- Swami Vivekananda
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. -- Bryant H. McGill
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism. -- Laurance Rockefeller
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. -- Wole Soyinka
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing. -- Sheryl Crow
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. -- Camille Paglia
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. -- H. P. Blavatsky
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. -- Erich Fromm
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. -- Billy Graham
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. -- Peace Pilgrim
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. -- Bertrand Russell
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. -- Arthur Erickson
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world. -- Penn Badgley
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body. -- Swami Vivekananda
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. -- E. M. Forster
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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. -- Shari Arison
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism. -- Swami Vivekananda
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction. -- Max Heindel
What's the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids' heads? Taking someone else's girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesn't seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio. -- Lupe Fiasco
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. -- Tom Ford
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. -- George Saunders
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism. -- James E. Faust
Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people. -- Bill Rancic
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. -- John Updike
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community. -- Afrika Bambaataa
Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell. -- Peter Rollins
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
We must get out of materialism. -- Swami Vivekananda
Sex is the mysticism of materialism. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Are you winning the battle against materialism? -- Randy Alcorn
Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism. -- Unarine Ramaru
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing. -- Philip Johnson
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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. -- Herbert Hoover
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status -- Jonathon Porritt
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws. -- Bob Dylan
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. -- Swami Vivekananda
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness. -- Shmuley Boteach
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism. -- Thomas Merton
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. -- Honore de Balzac
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. -- Charles A. Reich
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. -- Adam Sedgwick
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. -- Francis Arinze
America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism. -- Joseph Losey
The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. -- Robert Wuthnow
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. -- Talcott Parsons
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem. -- John Searle
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate! -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism. -- Clement Attlee
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. -- Swami Vivekananda
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. -- Rudolf Steiner
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. -- Martin Amis
You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God. -- Billy Graham
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. -- Tyler Burge
Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ... -- Cornelia Parker
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism. -- Randy Alcorn
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. -- Swami Vivekananda
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism! -- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ... -- Paule Marshall
I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. -- Erin Fall Haskell
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion. -- Bryant McGill
Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion. -- Bryant McGill
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit. -- Mario Cuomo
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events. -- Ernst F. Schumacher
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events. -- Ernst F. Schumacher
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. -- Arthur Erickson
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. -- Vanna Bonta
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book. -- Dov Davidoff
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. -- Vladimir Lenin
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. -- Vladimir Lenin

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