“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs. — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image. — Brad Gillis Copy Share Image
Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
“The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. — Hubert H. Humphrey 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for… — Thomas Pogge 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
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
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.… — Wendell Berry 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 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
“Would you rather be affluent, or influential? I’d rather be fluent in the language of love.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds. — Angela Rayner 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
