Materialism Quotes - Page 17

• America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

  Joseph Losey

  Strong Women, America, Spirituality

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• The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

  Francis Arinze

  Challenges, Church, Negative

  "Arinze Sees Fundamentalism Posing Bar to Interfaith Relations". www.beliefnet.com. December 2001.

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• The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Believe, Men, Spirit

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.276, Cambridge University Press

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• That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Feelings, Marketing, Kind

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

  Cornelia Parker

  Independent, World, Cry

  Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

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• I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Lucky

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

  Philip Johnson

  Mean, Scary, Naturalism

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• I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.

  Sarah Chayes

  Thinking, Humanity, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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