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

When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite. — 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

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

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

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 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

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 narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them. — Pearl S. Buck

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

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. — George Eliot

If every lover was treated like they matter - everyday; valentine's day wouldn't be so 'special. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

Ambition is greed without makeup. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We must get out of materialism. — Swami Vivekananda

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

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

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

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

The conviction that's underneath a lot of other statements is, I don't trust Gjod. — Matt Chandler

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. — Chuck Palahniuk

A man's bank balance is the new penis size. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality ... — Rachel Held Evans

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you. — Orrin Woodward

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

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

In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure. — Alexandre Dumas

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle. — Pat Conroy

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate! — Barbara Marx Hubbard

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache. — Adriano Bulla

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. — William James

New York's perennial attraction was shopping. — Erik Larson

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me? — Timothy Keller

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come ... sometimes; but (2) pay the bills ... at all times. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money. — H.L. Mencken

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

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

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

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