Quotes: Materialism

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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

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

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

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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.

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

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

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.