Sentences with phrase «material wealth and power»

Who knows, perhaps people of the industrialized global big - business - culture have become jaded, utterly mesmerized and generally misdirected by their relentless pursuit of material wealth and power.

The United States has great material wealth and power.

If material wealth and power are of no importance because your values are placed on the afterlife and with your imagary savior then why the fuc.k would anyone want you, a person with a literal death wish, as president?

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The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

Like the priests in Pharaoh's courts, traditional theology had assumed the burden of re-defining the god concept in order to satisfy material wants and self interests, the wants of body and the greed for power and wealth.

Guy Standing's attempt to imagine a «Precariat Charter» to address inequalities of power and material insecurity in the contemporary labour market includes proposals for basic income and, as also suggested by Angela Cummine, to develop and use Sovereign Wealth Funds in a manner akin to a Citizens» Trust.

Political power and material wealth are concentrated in the hands of the one per cent - they are those who set the rules and reap the benefits of these rules.

The exceptionally comfortable Zero Gravity seats are a hallmark of the Titan interior, as are quality materials and a wealth of power outlets that include 12V, 120V, and USB.

With upscale materials and meticulous attention to detail, the interior appeals to every sense with a wealth of amenities including the new low - profile rotary gear shift dial, full power accessories, a rear view camera, and 60 / 40 - split folding rear seats.

Tap into the power of the Victoria Stilwell brand and you instantly gain impact, credibility, reach, and a wealth of ready - to - use marketing materials and tools.

From the slippers of the Archbishop to the teeth of King John, as well as commemorative memorabilia and two original pages of the charter, a wealth of material is issued to illustrate the use — and abuse — of its power.

Within this environment, material goods were seen as a demonstration of power and financial wealth, while the artist was associated with cultural capital.

By working in the medium of marquetry, typically associated with wealth and power, to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in subject matter.

The material references European colonial practices in Africa and, in the context of Dreaming Rich, draws a comparison between the perspectives of colonial wealth and power in Africa and China.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

My generation of elders appears to be mortgaging and threatening the future of coming generations by remaining religiously focused upon the endless accumulation of material wealth, the unrestrained increase in per capita consumption of limited resources, and the continuous consolidation of political / military power used to conquer Earth.