Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

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.

Ignorance of what real learning is and a consequent suspicion of it materialism and a consequent intellectual laxity both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Happiness will come from materialism not from meaning.

That feeling of freedom open highways of possibilities has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

More recently as faith gave way to materialism anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

After 1980 you never heard reference to space again. Surface the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

This great though disastrous culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short materialism - does not fit into this world because it contains within itself no limiting principle while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics art must be restored to the center of public education.