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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.
— Charles Dickens
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
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
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
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
Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
