Material Comforts Quotes

#1. Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#2. And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Mark Strand

#3. For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant.

Richard Crossman

#4. The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Konosuke Matsushita

#6. Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.

Ayn Rand

#7. In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

Eugene Linden

#8. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

Dalai Lama

#10. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#11. The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

Ira Glass

#12. Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

Lynda Barry

#13. Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

Winston S. Churchill

#14. In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

Tom Robbins

#15. There is no greater burden or torture in this life than for a mother to live without one of her children

Unknown

#16. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Mike Schmoker

#17. I could give two shits about who sits on what throne and what flag rises from Rune's towers. Whoever it is I have to kneel to is always going to be some vicious swindler who climbed into that throne on the backs of the poor, the broken and the dead.

David Benem

#18. No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Honore De Balzac

#19. It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Joe Mansueto

#21. Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

#22. Let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that ... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

Muhammad Iqbal