Quotes and Sayings about Materialism
"The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism."
- H. P. Blavatsky
(Related: Men, Nature, Science, Difficulty, Materialism, Spirits)
"That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Feeling, Freedom, Marketing, Materialism, Open, Possibilities)
"An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited."
- Charles Edwards
(Related: Life, Attitude, Wealth, Environment, Fulfillment, Materialism, Pursuit, World)
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Management, America, Materialism, Now)
"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Change, Culture, Materialism, World)
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Design, Focus, Materialism, Space)
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Work, Ignorance, Learning, Materialism, Suspicion)
"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Materialism)
"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Men, Idealism, Materialism, Trouble, Visions, World)
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
- Malcolm Muggeridge
(Related: Religion, Society, Sex, Materialism)
"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Happiness, Materialism, Meaning, Will)
"More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Faith, Materialism, Right)
"A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day."
- Adam Sedgwick
(Related: Day, Materialism, Philosophy, Present)