Top Materialism Quotes

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.

Materialism Definition

(n.) The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

(n.) The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.

(n.) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhe...

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perf...

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

My claim here is not merely that I am a materialist through and through, and that the subversive kernel of Christianity is accessible also to a materialist approach; my thesis is much stronger: this k...

I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes with wonderful Power and closeness of reasoning, has by far the...

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God.... On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake rega...

The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least li...

The wisdom of nature continues to teach humanity that the material...is immaterial.

Virtues are worth more than the material things.

It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I r...

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

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.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.