[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are to be lifted up to a physical equality with man by placing upon their shoulders equal burdens of labor, equal responsibi...lities of state-craft; they are to be brought down from their altruistic heights by being released from all obligations of purity, loyalty, self-sacrifice, and made free of the world of passion and self-indulgence, after the model set them by men of low and materialistic ideals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they ...are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping "homeliness" entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all "sentiment" is co...arsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called "the Public," the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever me...t have been Europeans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from ...a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious, a miser's glittering hoard, guard...ed by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural rol...e in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this respect it differs from Europe, w...hich has preferred sophistication and worldly wisdom to "righteousness," and resembles China, which saw the universe itself as essentially a moral order. However materialistic Americans may be in their economic pursuits, their ceremonies emphasize the material far less than European societies have. America has imposing official architecture. Washington, D.C., boasts a radial baroque stateliness. Yet one of its most important buildings, the White House, is a modest dwelling, its scale far smaller than that of the palaces of Europe and Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »