materialism Quotes

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

For greed all nature is too little.

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.