Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
“Allocating time and money in the pursuit of looking superior often has a predictable outcome: inferior economic achievement. What are three words… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
“If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
“It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“People usually compare themselves to their more fortunate contemporaries rather than to their ill-fated ancestors. If you tell a poor American in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything?… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around… — Alice Greczyn Copy Share Image
Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case. — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds… — Lynn Woolsey Copy Share Image
It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I started out, our family was very affluent. My dad saw to it that we weren't. And now that I've made it… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
