Materialistic Quotes - Page 5

• I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and the beauty of its adolescence and went straight to a middle-aged ugly, overfed monster seeking mindless pleasure and being obsessively acquisitive. It's so materialistic. It grew up, but it didn't mature.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, Ugly, Mature

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the universe.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  World, Influence, Universe

  "Interview with Bruce Lipton on Spiritual Evolution". Interview with Rahasya Poe, lotusguide.com. July 1, 2010.

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• To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mind, Youth, Corruption

  Source: secure.saharareporters.com

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• What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Way, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, America, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Past, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Children, Taken

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• You can't take your stuff with you when you die. That doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it while you're alive. Why not? But it's all pretty silly. I fall victim to it. I mean, I want nice stuff too. So I guess I'm poking fun at myself as well as other materialistic people.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Fun, Nice, Silly

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

  Joe Goddard

  Stuff, Modern, Pops

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Fall, Rain

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• We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

  Dalai Lama

  Common Sense, People, Support

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• Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

  Lindsey Wixson

  Real, Goal, Live Your Life

  "Hanging With Lindsey Wixson". Interview with Zeke Turner, wwd.com. February 7, 2011.

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• My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

  Andy Warhol

  America, Today, Harsh

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.37, MIT Press

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• The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Writing, Age, Prose

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.420, Modern Library

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• I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

  Austin Stowell

  Real, Talking, People

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• If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

  Ben Salmon

  Christian, Reality, Ideas

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• The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!

  John Gresham Machen

  Spiritual, Adventure, America

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• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which perhaps existed a couple of centuries ago is absolutely impossible. On the contrary, in order to combat modern materialistic mores, as religion must, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fighting, Order, Nihilism

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr., "St. Austin Review", Volume 2, No. 2, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dad, Father, Car

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• In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Believe, World, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

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• We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you need to replace it with a shared moral code. Otherwise, everybody becomes very self-centred and materialistic.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Self, Ideas, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too fast I'm afraid. Especially in American culture where people tend to be materialistic philosophically. I don't mean running to the mall, but philosophically, you see?

  Robert Thurman

  Running, Mean, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it, and things are as real as I think they. That's way too materialistic or substantialist, because things are not really what they seem to be.

  Surya Das

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• For me, love is the feeling of being at home no matter where on earth you are. It's a comfort that silences anxieties. It's the feeling of finding a safe place in the middle of disaster. Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth. Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Blessed, Home, Love Is

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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