133 Quotes About Material

Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.

Moral values are changing with a change in social outlook. We are frustrated today because we use old definitions of morality for the modern world. We want people to be moral as well as modern which is a difficult goal to achieve in practice. The loss of old standards of morality is the price we have to pay to achieve more freedom, more equality and more material prosperity.

As for me, I don’t like anything that rises to heaven, I only like things affected by gravity.

Maybe Time is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way of thinking, their conception of the world and the quality of their fears. ("Horizon and Vision" )

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.