“Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''”
Paul McCartney
“Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods”
“The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.”
Malcolm de Chazal
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.”
“If they want to put Christ back in Christmas, they should skip the mall and give that money to the poor.”
Bill Leonard
