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