If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and… — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. — Bill James Copy Share Image
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who… — Philip K. Chapman Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
“were now not only affluent themselves but were also able to help family members-hut only so long as they stayed in office.'-” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Integrity is more significant than income. Honor is more opulent than fame. Self worth is more affluent than net worth.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a… — William Weld Copy Share Image
“The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the… — Robin Weigert Copy Share Image
If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“It started off very underprivileged, but got more affluent.' Amis suddenly smiles to himself, remembering a moment with his father. 'I remember… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“It is everywhere, not just in places where people don’t have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
