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All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Thinking, Vapid, Materialism
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

Randy Alcorn
Winning, Battle, Materialism
Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.323, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.

Radhanath Swami
Consciousness, Materialism, Enjoy

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

Quentin S. Crisp
Space, Want, Materialism
Source: www.teemingbrain.com

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

Philip Johnson
Mean, Scary, Materialism

Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

Nancy Pearcey
Philosophy, Materialism, Blind
Source: www.biblegateway.com

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

Jonathon Porritt
Moving, Needs, Materialism

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

John Searle
Materialism, Awareness, Ends
"Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

Heraclitus
Materialism, Invisible, Harmony

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

George Eliot
Levels, Materialism, Felt
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.371, Penguin

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Christopher Hitchens
Needs, Faults, Materialism
Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia
Art, Eras, Materialism
Camille Paglia (2007). “Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems”, p.17, Vintage

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