Quotes about Materialism

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Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world. — Claire Cross, Double Trouble
Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world. — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar lead — Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slav — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house." — Susan Trott, The Holy Man
Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthl — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating — Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider li — Bryan M. Litfin, The Sword
Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make i — Claire Cross, Double Trouble
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically co — H.W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motio — Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3
Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost always blame everyone bu — Fulton J. Sheen
In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or und — Benjamin Kunkel
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. — Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question
Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more. — Mary Ellen Edmunds, You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don't Need: The Quest for Contentment
...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. — Andrei Platonov
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel