Famous quotes containing the words materialist and/or values:
“Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”
—Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930)