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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Values, Material Possessions, Purpose, Relationships

• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Nature, Progress

  Tags in Material Possessions, Earth, Philosophy

• I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Topics in Children, Humor

  Tags in Material Possessions

• Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it’s music or feelings or love. They’re things we can’t really see or touch. They’re not material, but they’re vitally important to us.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Material Possessions, Feeling, Meaning

• We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Material Possessions, Civilization

• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

  Jonathan Swift

  Topics in Expectations, Power

  Tags in Empathy, Material Possessions, Poverty

• We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Injustice, Material Possessions, Wealth

• Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

  Anthony J. D'Angelo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Material Possessions, Relationships

• There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Tags in Material Possessions

• You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.

  Eric Hoffer

  Tags in Material Possessions

• The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

  Tags in Material Possessions

• Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

  Studs Terkel

  Tags in Injustice, Material Possessions

• The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

  Anatole France

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Inclusion, Equality, Indifference, Material Possessions

• Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Tags in Material Possessions

• People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

   

   

  Joan Rivers

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Material Possessions

• As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Injustice, Material Possessions

• If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western “rich” countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it…. The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, waste and advertisement explosions in the western “rich” countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

  Robert Muller

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Injustice, Material Possessions

• The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Education, Success

  Tags in Material Possessions, Integrity/Individuality, Capitalism