materialism Quotes

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.