(723 quotes found)
“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.”
Rudolf Steiner
“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”
James Joyce
“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”
Charles F. Kettering
“When you stress individualism, as this country does; materialism, as this country does; personal weaponry, as this country does; and racial hatred, which is part of our heritage as white Europeans; and then you add the volatile ingredient of "nothing”
George Carlin
“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”
Walter Gropius
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”
William S. Burroughs
“A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.”
Graham Greene
“I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to, ... The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.”
Carlos Mencia
