It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself. Theodore Roosevelt
A state, in order to be truly Islamic, must arrange the affairs of the community in such a way that every individual, man and woman, shall enjoy that minimum of material well-being without which there can be no human dignity, no real freedom and, in the last resort, no spiritual progress. Muhammad Asad
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. Jeffrey Eugenides