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

—Marcus Aurelius

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

—Ljupka Cvetanova

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

—Brian Spellman

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Cynical-HumorGodMaterialism
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When everything gets too much, give some away

—Benny Bellamacina

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GreedLifeLove
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Makers?” said Toby. Jaysir nodded.”We’re not loners, you know. There just weren’t any on Wallop. We love to get together, we just refuse to engage in social relations that are based on material inequity.

—Karl Schroeder

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MakersMaterialismSocial-Anthropology
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A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would...

—John Steinbeck

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Parents who spoil their children out of ‘love’ should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse–no man-made laws anyway–this spiritual mistreatment may result in as...

—Randy Alcorn

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AffluenceAffluenzaChild-Abuse
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*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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EmploymentLow-Self-EsteemMaterialism
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Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to compete head on with evolution. One of the main things they [intelligent design...

—Robert T.

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EvolutionIgnoranceMaterialism
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It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. And the people aren’t beautiful. They have big hands and feet,...

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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CapitalismMaterialism
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…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...

—Thomas Jefferson

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AbsurdityAtheismAtheist
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He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste. All the heads in his angle of vision seemed irregular lumps, like potatoes...

—Alasdair Gray

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MaterialismPotatoSensitive-Artiste
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When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.

—Bryant McGill

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Essence-Of-LifeMaterialismObssession
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

—Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand-RussellFreedomMaterialism
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

—Janis Joplin

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

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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It is very awkward how some people don’t have any investment, wouldn’t buy self-development books, complain that organic foods are too expensive for them to afford, but yet they have all the costly brand name...

—Edmond Mbiaka

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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

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JealousyMaterialismWant
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But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for...

—Mitch Albom

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DeficientLifeLoving-Relationship
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In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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AgeEmploymentExperience
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Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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ConsumerismGlutonyGreed
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Sometimes we can’t see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive ‘things’and...

—Tim Crawshaw

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She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

—Thomas Hardy

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ContentmentIdeasLearning
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For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

—Wilhelm von

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IdealismMaterialism
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Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of ‘ancient’ famous...

—Akutra-Ramses Atenosis

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ChildrenFortuneFuture
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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 overwhelming and...

—David Brooks

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CarnalityDiscipleshipDistraction
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Yes, I’m a materialist. I’m willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I’m unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders...

—James Randi

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AtheismEvidenceExperiment
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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

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HappinessMaterialism
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immaterial” to God.

—Donald L.

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GodMaterialismMaterialistic
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James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.

—O Anna

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AdvertisingJames-BondMaterialism
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Diese jungen Menschen hatten keine Wünsche, keine Überzeugungen, geschweige denn Ideale, sie strebten keinen bestimmten Beruf an, wollten weder politischen Einfluss noch eine glückliche Familie, keine Kinder, keine Hausiere und keine Heimat, und sehnten sich...

—Juli Zeh

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GenerationIdeologyMaterialism
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A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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DatingMarriageMaterialism
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Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally – few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

—Rasheed Ogunlaru

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AssetsCapitalEconomics
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We’re all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who’ll never be impressed.

—Sophie Kinsella

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ImpressionMaterialismMoney
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Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

—Thomas Hughes

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MaterialismRedemptionRevitalization
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The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material...

—Alain de Botton

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AchievementMaterialismPriorities
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We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.”[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]

—Alexander Pope

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ContemptGreedMaterialism
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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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AtheismImmortalityMaterialism
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Countries which have a different base, for example, a Christian one (or at least one with the memory of a Christian foundation) may indeed act most inconsistently and horribly. But when a state with a...

—Francis A.

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ChristianDignityMaterialism
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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

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FearHorrorMaterialism
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Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could...

—Frank R.

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AtheismBiographyChildren
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The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

—John Calvin

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DiscipleshipMaterialismPassion
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Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

—Kahlil Gibran

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ContemplationMaterialism
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Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some...

—Randy Alcorn

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ChristianityFinancesFinancial-Planning
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We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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DesireMaterialismNeed
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ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

—Robert T.

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EvidenceFalsifiableMaterialism
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o. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. And the people aren’t beautiful. They have big hands and...

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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CapitalismMaterialism
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We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house.”Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know....

—Susan Trott

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LoveMaterialismTruth
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To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to...

—Alexandre Dumas

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InfluenceMaterialismWealth
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We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

—Bill Holm

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