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Materialism Quotes

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No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement Attlee

No social structure will bring us contentment, well-being and success unless it is driven by something more than consumerism.
Authors on Materialism Quotes: Swami Vivekananda Bryant H. McGill John Searle Randy Alcorn Barbara Marx Hubbard George Eliot Vladimir Lenin Ashly Lorenzana Bahá'u'lláh Martin Luther King, Jr. Nancy Pearcey Billy Graham Janis Joplin Shmuley Boteach Eugene Wigner Henri Frederic Amiel Thomas a Kempis Amit Goswami Paul Samuelson Maurice Sendak Naomi Oreskes Bruce Lee Jerry A. Coyne Robert Plant Adam Sedgwick Gilbert K. Chesterton Saul Philip Johnson Mignon McLaughlin Malcolm Muggeridge Talcott Parsons Christopher Hitchens Henry Jacobsen
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin

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Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.
Amit Goswami

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Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
Eugene Wigner

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An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
Paul Samuelson

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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
Laurance Rockefeller

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There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak

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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
Joseph Stalin

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
Thomas Nagel

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

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Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
Bahá'u'lláh

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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.
Henry Jacobsen

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If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
Talcott Parsons

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Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
Bruce Lee

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Materialism is an identity crisis.
Bryant H. McGill

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Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.
Swami Vivekananda

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All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.
Pope John Paul II

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Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Mignon McLaughlin

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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Frank A. Clark

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Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
Shmuley Boteach

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Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
Vladimir Lenin

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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

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Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
John Searle

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The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
Saul

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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov

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The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
Randy Alcorn

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We must get out of materialism.
Swami Vivekananda

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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
Thomas a Kempis

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The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
Nancy Hartsock

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No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
Swami Vivekananda

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell

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You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.
Swami Vivekananda

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Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.
Jerry A. Coyne

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.
Swami Vivekananda

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Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.
Swami Vivekananda

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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Adam Sedgwick

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Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.
Swami Vivekananda

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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.
Swami Vivekananda

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The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Bryant H. McGill

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Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
Robert Plant

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It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
Naomi Oreskes

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Sex is the mysticism of materialism.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
Ashly Lorenzana

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If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
Quentin S. Crisp

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All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr