(20 quotes found)
“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
“It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.”
Jennifer Frederick
“Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath And surface pleasure, but beneath The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind. Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer's martyrdom.”
Contributed by: Randi
Madeline Morse
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”
Oscar Wilde
“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words”
Harlan Miller
“Americans who harbor guilt about living in this empire of ours had best hope there’s an afterlife because living with guilt and fear about being materialistic makes for hell on earth. You actually have only one choice. If you do not choose to be the predator, someone will assign you the part of playing the prey.”
Bobby W. Miller
“The thing that comes so easily goes even more readily and quickly. All it takes only one’s wickedness to stop it and not willingness to go atop to hold it.”
Anuj Somany
“If they want to put Christ back in Christmas, they should skip the mall and give that money to the poor.”
Bill Leonard
