Materialsm Quotes & Sayings

Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone. — Robert Green Ingersoll

God created seaweed ... The seaweed made the world. — John B. Keane

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control. — Marty Rubin

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception. — Raphael Soyer

Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly? — Niall Ferguson

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark. — Maxwell Maltz

I don't like to compare myself with anybody. — Don Rickles

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. — Douglas Coupland

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure. — Don Bluth

Calm Down
what happens
happens mostly
without you. — Josef Albers

Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The relationship between father and daughter, adult male and female child, is one of the most unequal relationships imaginable. It is no accident that incest occurs most often precisely in the relationship where the female is most powerless. The actual sexual encounter may be brutal or tender, painful or pleasurable; but it is always, inevitably, destructive to the child. The father, in effect, forces the daughter to pay with her body for affection and care which should be freely given. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable. — Zadie Smith

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard. — Sheldon Lee Glashow