If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
We utilize energy from carbon, not because we are bad people, but because it is the affordable foundation on which the profound… — John Christy Copy Share Image
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off...… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
