Which shelf for materialism?

For others, withdrawal, nihilism, materialism.

And one of the problems with money is materialism.

Because every time I give, it breaks the grip of materialism in my life.

The books on this shelf pertain to empiricism, and on this shelf, materialism, and on this, psychopiscoparalysm.

And materialism, they think they get out of it just by not existing, by dying, but they don't.

Peace, he said, was not possible in an environment where there were no family ties and where materialism ruled.

Materialism is all about getting get, get, get, get all you can, can all you get, sit on the can and spoil the rest.

Communism and socialism do not command public support as they once did. Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.

(ii) Changes in society, which mean that established values are yielding other values, including a money centred materialism which sometimes tends to treat religion rather like a product

American films, for example, include sex, violence, and materialism, but that is not the whole story. They also portray American life as open, mobile, individualistic, anti establishment, pluralist, populist, and free.

Social values, and consequently family values, that are shifting toward individualism, materialism and consumerist tendencies, weakening family relations, impacting the values of solidarity and cooperation within families, and contributing to the appearance of new patterns of deviant, anti social behaviour among family members

Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self confidence to meet the challenge of the West. Since Confucianism was essentially an agnostic ideology, concerned with the management of the visible world, the post Confucians experienced little of the spiritual angst that afflicted Hindus, Muslims, and Christians in their collision with the materialism of industrial society.

10. Reference should be made to the need for adherence to the social, religious and moral principles and values the influence of which has declined in the age of materialism, and to the need to expand the lofty beliefs propagated by the divinely revealed religions which play a role in promoting social discipline, developing the human conscience and providing protection from aberrant behaviour.