Affluence Quotes

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

True affluence is to not need anything.

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Affluence = abundant flow.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Affluence creates poverty.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Donald Trump connected with the American public because they wanted to be like him. They aspired to be just like him. They wanted to see all of his affluence, and he let them see it.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

Affluence means influence.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

True affluence is not needing anything.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.