“ 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. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain… Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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“ It all depends on whether you have things or they have you. ”
- Robert A. Cook- Copy
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“ Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ”
- Herbert Marcuse- Copy
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“ Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Dialectical materialism is not of course an eternal and immutable philosophy. To think otherwise is to contradict the spirit of the dialectic. Further development of scientific thought will undoubtedly create a more profound doctrine into which dialectical materialism will enter merely as structural material. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism. ”
- Clement R. Attlee- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Somebody said to me, "But the Beatles were anti-materialistic." That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, "Now, let's write a swimming pool.". ”
- Paul McCartney- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
- 174
“ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ”
- Muhammad Anwar el Sadat- Copy
- 325
“ The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. ”
- Malcolm De Chazal- Copy
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