Quotes of: Material-wealth Keyword

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Ludwig von Mises

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to ...

Doctor Zhivago

The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....As a matter of fact, most of the dogmatic religions ha...

This View of Life: The World of an Evolutionist

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Pla...

Philip Pullman

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perfect law" in order fix everything, while failing to...

C. JoyBell C.

The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unco...

Love

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

David Joseph Schwartz

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Mary McCarthy

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Northanger Abbey

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them

Letters from a Stoic

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

Chanda Kochhar

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Felix Dennis

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

Omar Torrijos Herrera

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Plato

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

T.K. Naliaka

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism

M.F. Moonzajer

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world; but we haven’t found wealth on the road.

M.F. Moonzajer