Q: What is wrong with the world?
A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.
Tags: world humanity problems materialism
There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
--"Bomar
Tags: materialism money-not-happiness
The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
Mitch AlbomTags: life relationships spirituality materialism lessons
Materialism is an identity crisis.
Bryant McGillTags: materialism identity-crisis life-struggles
When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.
Bryant McGillTags: materialism essence-of-life obssession
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
Thomas à KempisTags: passion materialism desire idolatry
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
Zeena SchreckTags: environmentalism materialism death-of-the-human-race continued-life zeena-schreck beatdom
And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world, and indeed the idea now even meets with mockery, for how can one drop one's habits, where will this slave go now that he is so accustomed to satisfying the innumerable needs he himself has invented? He is isolated, and what does he care about the whole? They have succeeded in amassing more and more things, but have less and less joy.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: happiness unity materialism modern-man
On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping over the ocean, which roared like a funeral mass and rolled up mountainous seas fringed with mourning silvery foam. The Devil, who from the rocks of Gibraltar, the stony gateway of two worlds, watched the ship vanish into night and storm, could hardly distinguish from behind the snow the innumerable fiery eyes of the ship. The Devil was as huge as a cliff, but the ship was even bigger, a many-storied, many-stacked giant, created by the arrogance of the New Man with his ancient heart.
Ivan BuninTags: wealth satan materialism culture
A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.
David PlattTags: church materialism
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