Materialism - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

True affluence is not needing anything. — Gary Snyder

We own the things that claim that we are theirs. — Jay Mark D. Saga - ad

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money. — George Orwell Keep the...

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. — Arthur Erickson

Life is more than great sex and a nice car. Well, yeah. But not a lot more. — Jennifer Crusie Strange...

The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries {"museums"}, and not yourselves, are full.

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French...

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of...

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

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