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You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive - or cheap - his clothes are. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. — Christopher Hitchens

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? — Sen No Rikyu

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him. — H.W. Brands

When everything gets too much, give some away — Benny Bellamacina

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess. — Tess Gerritsen

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers. — Bill Holm

Pornography is sexual materialism. — Marty Rubin

I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them. — Thomas Nagel

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

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set. — Jeremy Camp

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

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. — John Ruskin

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

Democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress. — Pawan Mishra

We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy. — Jennifer Crystal

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727] — Alexander Pope

Security is by far the city's predominant business. — Ron Suskind

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world. — Faraaz Kazi

One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much. — David Halberstam

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury. — Alain De Botton

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own. — Stephen L. Carter

You can never have too much money. — Jess C. Scott

I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there. — Alda Merini

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed. — Sophie Kinsella

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity. — H.W. Brands

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. — Mao Tse-tung

The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become. — Sherry Turkle

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. — Billy Graham

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark. — Anthony Liccione

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. — Baha'u'llah

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration. — Donald Miller

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it. — Henry Ford

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause. — Charles Dickens

Material possessions do not last, but memories last forever. — Margo Vader

Materialism - an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value - was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed. — Drew Karpyshyn

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly. — Honore De Balzac

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing. — Philip Johnson

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer. — H.W. Brands

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don't have ... to prove the love they think they have. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

materialism with emotionalism — Tamal Bandyopadhyay

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast. — Criss Jami

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

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. — G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less — Benny Bellamacina

For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash! — Stephen Richards

Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? — Randy Alcorn

My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture. — John Grisham

Ambition is greed without makeup. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We must get out of materialism. — Swami Vivekananda

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people — Cesar Hidalgo

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

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Money is a great servant but a bad master. — Francis Bacon

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations — Thomas Hughes

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason. — Swami Vivekananda

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

If there's a sickness in America, it's the lack of materialism. — J.P. Donleavy

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. — Nathan McCall

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. — Lionel Shriver

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions. — Stephen L. Carter

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted — Sunday Adelaja

Being self-owned is a state of mind. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world. — Claire Cross

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. — Chuck Palahniuk

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it. — Paul David Tripp

A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it. — John Calvin

All's fair in love and dialectical materialism, — James K. Morrow

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. — Leonard Ravenhill

Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. — Herbert Hoover

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

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

He fetishized limits. — Rick Perlstein

Q: What is wrong with the world?
A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects. — Thomas Hardy

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell

They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company. — John Le Carre

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure. — Geraldine Brooks