#materialist

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#america #europe #get #i #i do

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#conditions #driving #duties #end #equal

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it. ↗

— Roland Gift

#build #car #change #change things #changes

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#bought #danger #did #experts #first

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#ask #end #endgame #going #loser

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#believe #child #does #drawing #heart

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#cares #ecclesiastical #just #materialist #more

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#black #come #conscious #crimes #masses

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beautiful #because #certain #certain degree #degree