I have nothing to lose. I keep all my valuables in a safe.

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

He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

When everything gets too much, give some away

Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws...

We’ve got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things–things we can see–as being the measure of a person. We think...

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

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

No other reason.

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not...

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

We always want what is not ours. It’s intriguing. We think if we can just get that, we’ll finally be happy. The lure of what we do not have is deceptive.True freedom, however, is found...

Just imagine if you took all the money you’ve spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about...

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of...

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The...

She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center of the shopping complex’s ground floor.The scene was a swirl of candy bright...

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life...

A fast car can make women ‘like’ a man; and a man ‘like’ women … fast.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of...

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings...

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we...

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it’s only in troublous times...

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can...

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations...

The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn’t born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his...

Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man’s last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you’re glad somebody else is there to hear it.

spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences—which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it.”[Man and the Gospel (1865)]

Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and…so little vs. …so much!

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I’m wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it’s nature...

I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost...

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

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

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

I’ve nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of...

In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture… by the defenders of intelligent design. Even though writers like Michael Behe and Stephen C. Meyer are motivated...

A man’s bank balance is the new penis size.

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

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

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.

The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a...

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

Did you find anything special?’ Blackie asked.T. nodded. ‘Come over here,’ he said, ‘and look.’ Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. ‘Old Misery’s savings,’ he said. ‘Mike ripped out the mattress,...