Materialism Quotes - Page 3

• Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Littles, Spirituality, Maximum

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2855, Manonmani Publishers

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• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Guy Debord

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  "Yes, too many of us are in pointless jobs - but don't despair" by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

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• The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Mean, Organization, Everyday

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• Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Civilization, Luxury

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• Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Vulgar

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Bored, Shrines, Sentimental

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• I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

  Lloyd Banks

  Loyalty, Honorable Man, Important

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• For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Different, Tides

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• The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

  Herbert Gold

  Eye, Blood, Ears

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• Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rvs, India, Ancient

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.56, Read Books Ltd

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• 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

  Men, Talking, Our Society

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.13, editionNEXT.com

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• Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Waiting, Good Man

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1084, Manonmani Publishers

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• We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.

  Miguel Serrano

  Religious, Believe, Hero

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• We must get out of materialism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Is Vedanta The Future Religion?”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• 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

  Men, Comfort, World

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.108, Penguin

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• The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Philosophy, Views, Matter

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• 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

  Years, Soul, Despair

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Moral Growth, Comfort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Religion, Materialistic

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Christopher Ralling (1967). “Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television”, Not Avail

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• Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Differences

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• But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Struggle

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Men, Doors

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• Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Men, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Baby, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3594, Manonmani Publishers

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