Materialistic Quotes - Page 8

• Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Animal, Men, Order

  George Gaylord Simpson (1959). “The Meaning of Evolution”

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• During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America, and the Israeli Lobby with the full complicity of the national media. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.

  Thomas Naylor

  Powerful, Wall, America

  "Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. May 13, 2012.

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• The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.

  Michael Franti

  Spiritual, Military, Priorities

  "It's Never Too Late". "Michael Franti & Spearhead" live performance at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in New York City, www.youtube.com. March 8, 2007.

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• We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

  Terence Fisher

  Sex, Thinking, Black

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• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

  Mary McCarthy

  Life, Character, Cities

  "On the contrary".

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• A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

  Huston Smith

  Years, Two, Religion

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• When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Thinking, Practice, Experience

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.226, Crown Business

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• I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Writing, Soul, Culture

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• ... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

  Elliott Carter

  Talking, Europe, America

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• I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Fun, Years, Passionate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Independence, World, Way

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• If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Teaching, Mean

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• Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Errors, Two

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• Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

  Robert Frost

  Spiritual, Creativity, People

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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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• Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.

  Varg Vikernes

  Believe, Democracy, Different

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• An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

  Terry Southern

  Hero, Hypocrisy, Abuse

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• The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Civilization, White

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• If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Blind, Knowledge Is Power, Force

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

  Kingoro Hashimoto

  World, Historic, Liberalism

  "The China Monthly Review", vol. 106-107, p. 41, 1947.

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• I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch

  Nicki Minaj

  Halloween, Green, Tricks

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• They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut

  Nicki Minaj

  Cutting, Hair, Giving

  Song: Girls Fall Like Dominoes, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion

  Nicki Minaj

  Vintage, Mansions, Bike

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