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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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727] — Alexander Pope
                                				
        		        				[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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.                                
                                                        — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                        
                        
				                                                            
                                    If every lover was treated like they matter  -  everyday; valentine's day wouldn't be so 'special.                                
                                                        — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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 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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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
                                				
        		        				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