Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
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