Material Quotes

Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.

I don’t compose. I assemble materials.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson’s music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

I am the original ‘Material Girl.’

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.