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“Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things”
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: Part II (1274)
“Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.”
— Vladimir Lenin Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908).
“The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.”
— Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 33, pp. 227-236.
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
— Malcolm Muggeridge, BBC1 TV broadcast (21 October 1963), as quoted in "The American Way of Sex", in Muggeridge Through the Microphone (1967).
“Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.”
— John R. Searle (2002) Consciousness and Language, p. 47.
“In the course of the 19th Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and all its attendant results. One of the first results was theoretical materialism accompanied by atheism. It can be said that the materialists of the 19th Century positively revelled in atheism.”
— Rudolf Steiner 1917/1986 Karma of Materialism.

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“Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things”
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: Part II (1274)
“Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.”
— Vladimir Lenin Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908).
“The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.”
— Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 33, pp. 227-236.
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
— Malcolm Muggeridge, BBC1 TV broadcast (21 October 1963), as quoted in "The American Way of Sex", in Muggeridge Through the Microphone (1967).
“Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.”
— John R. Searle (2002) Consciousness and Language, p. 47.
“In the course of the 19th Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and all its attendant results. One of the first results was theoretical materialism accompanied by atheism. It can be said that the materialists of the 19th Century positively revelled in atheism.”
— Rudolf Steiner 1917/1986 Karma of Materialism.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.