Materialism Quotes - Page 7

• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Philosophy, Reality, Claims

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• 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

  Light, Soul, Zombie

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.22, Fig

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• If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Spiritual, Climbing, Mountain

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• There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Civilization, Racism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.158, Beacon Press

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• We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

  Derrick Bell

  America, Greed, Levels

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.5, A&C Black

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• We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have?

  Melody Beattie

  Children, Heart, Voice

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

  Emma Forrest

  Notebook, Hair, Vogue Magazine

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.30, A&C Black

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• There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Evolution, Conscious, Worldview

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Giving, Hatred

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• There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Rights, Numbers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Country, Ambition, Mind

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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• One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.

  Joseph Girzone

  Addiction, Mind, Serious

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• 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

  Writing, Citizens, May

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Oasis

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Spiritual, Cutting, Reality

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.125, Three Rivers Press

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• 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

  Kids, Games, Parent

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned.

  Emile Coue

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

  Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

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• I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

  Paule Marshall

  America, United States, Want

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.90, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• 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

  Meaningful, Validation, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Gowns, Balls

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Greed

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• 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

  Commitment, Responsibility, Doe

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• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Passion, Pride, Men

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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