Materialism Quotes

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. - H. P. Blavatsky

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing. - Sheryl Crow

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. - John Berger

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism. - D.H. Lawrence

N this business you got different types of artists who are trying to get to the level of success; everybody graduates to where they are trying to get the finer things in life. That's a reward they just like to have. Some people choose materialism. Some people choose to live a nice life and just be who they are. So whatever you gotta do to get wherever you gotta go to be happy is what you've got to do. That's it. - Raekwon

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. - Doug Horton

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. - Arthur Erickson