Top 100 Quotes About Materialism
#1. 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
#2. A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Adam Sedgwick
#3. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.
Billy Graham
#4. Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#5. In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality ...
Rachel Held Evans
#6. There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#7. So it is not simply by understanding doctrine that we uproot narcissism and materialism. It is by actually taking our place in a local expression of that concrete economy of grace instituted by God in Christ and sustained by his Word and Spirit.
Michael S. Horton
#8. It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#9. The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
Helena Blavatsky
#10. Physical comfort
materialism, if you like
is the enemy of any serious spirituality, I think. When we're warm and well fed, our souls can be empty and we still make it through the day. And as I've discovered recently, it is the greatest poverty of all.
Lucinda Riley
#11. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.
Thomas Huxley
#12. Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies that care for their citizens, harmonize with the cycles of nature, and receive and honor the vast healing light that quietly connects us all.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#13. He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).
Nancy Pearcey
#15. We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.
D.J. Jouett
#16. Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.
Paul Isaacs
#17. I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...
Paule Marshall
#18. You have to treat your car with love. And I don't mean love of an object. You see, that's just wrong. That's materialism. You have to love your car like it's sentient being, like it can love you back. Now, that's some deep-down agape love.
Sherman Alexie
#19. It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
Tyler Burge
#20. Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
Leonard Ravenhill
#21. If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Are you winning the battle against materialism?
Randy Alcorn
#23. The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Werner Heisenberg
#24. The way people used to kiss before the age of historical materialism.
Ilya Ilf
#25. Repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them.
Plato
#26. The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Bryant H. McGill
#27. Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.
Zane Grey
#28. It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
Naomi Oreskes
#29. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.
Jonathan Cahn
#30. 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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
#31. Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Rupert Sheldrake
#32. The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving ... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.
R. Kent Hughes
#33. Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.
Bill Rancic
#34. No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
Shmuley Boteach
#36. If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.
Billy Graham
#37. Universal appreciation of art ... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.
Walter J. Phillips
#39. Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ...
Cornelia Parker
#40. While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.
Pope Francis
#42. I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.
Thomas Nagel
#43. I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
Kerry Washington
#44. The claim that there cannot be an infinite regress of contingent ontological causes raises a truly difficult challenge to pure materialism; but to imagine that it can be extended to undermine the claim that there must be an absolute ontological cause is to fall prey to an obvious category error.
David Bentley Hart
#45. Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.
Swami Vivekananda
#46. In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
Shawn Amos
#47. Say that he was right about how bad it was in the Soviet Union, but he just didn't understand the nice materialism of the West. Say that the Soviet Union was bad because the people were deprived of meaningless creature comforts, and that the West is good because the people are flooded with them.
Anthony Esolen
#48. You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
Nancy Pearcey
#49. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.
Nancy Pearcey
#50. If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
Talcott Parsons
#51. Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
Laurance Rockefeller
#52. Democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#53. Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
Robert Plant
#55. From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
Adam Sedgwick
#56. Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Douglas Horton
#57. On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it, and things are as real as I think they. That's way too materialistic or substantialist, because things are not really what they seem to be.
Surya Das
#58. Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.
Billy Graham
#59. What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
Rudolf Steiner
#60. What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.
Peter Singer
#61. We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
Wole Soyinka
#62. Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#63. In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.
Kreayshawn
#64. Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#65. Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Idries Shah
#66. The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
E.F. Schumacher
#67. Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market.
Piers Steel
#68. Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.
Radhanath Swami
#69. One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
Daniel Everett
#70. Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
Bob Dylan
#71. The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
Francis Arinze
#72. It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, and body.
Manly P. Hall
#73. You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.
Gene Wolfe
#74. Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.
Michael Beckwith
#75. The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.
Penn Badgley
#76. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
Nancy Pearcey
#77. Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
Honore De Balzac
#78. In a world described by quantum physics, an insistence on causal closure of the physical world amounts to a quasi-religious faith in the absolute powers of matter, a belief that is no more than a commitment to brute, and outmoded, materialism.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#79. The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
Talib Kweli
#80. Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
Brooks Atkinson
#81. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson
#83. Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.
Pankaj Mishra
#84. Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx's proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
Joseph Stalin
#85. Materialism leads us to lose awareness of our inner life, which is bad enough; but to be hypnotized by our own feelings and sensations and forget about others and the world around us is worse.
Anonymous
#86. If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.
John B. S. Haldane
#87. That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Sheryl Crow
#88. America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.
Joseph Losey
#89. Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.
Simon De Pury
#90. We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
George W. Romney
#91. It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
Billy Graham
#92. Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.
John Lennox
#94. Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
Wassily Kandinsky
#95. ...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use for its laws. To that extent, it should be obvious that the laws of physics are incomplete in predicting everything that occurs in nature
- from Moral Materialism
Ashish Dalela
#96. Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov
#97. When language starts transcending materialism, one begins to speak of analogies instead of symbols.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#98. Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?
Niall Ferguson
#99. Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality
Dallin H. Oaks
#100. We must reject the lie of materialism. Your STUFF, does not dictate Your STATURE.
Jayce O'Neal
