Standards of living Quotes

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

— Michael Porter

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

— Randy Alcorn

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

— Paul Volcker

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

— Aldo Leopold

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

— Norman Borlaug

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

— Richard Lamm

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

— William R. Ferris

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

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science…

— Vannevar Bush

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs…

— Peter Blair Henry

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit…

— John Updike

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the…

— Norman Mailer

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and…

— Tony Blair

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to…

— Randy Alcorn

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the…

— Hector Hugh Munro

A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only…

— Thomas Pogge

But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can…

— Zhang Xin

The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In…

— George Reisman

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

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to…

— Peter Diamandis

If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced…

— Ludwig von Mises

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their…

— Rush Limbaugh

The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living…

— Ludwig von Mises

Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people…

— Francis Chan

It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step…

— John F. Kennedy

The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South…

— William S. Burroughs

Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how…

— David Lilienthal

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

Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are…

— Clarence Jordan

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

— Marya Mannes

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

— Catherine Crook de Camp

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

— Alfred P. Sloan

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

— Zig Ziglar

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

— Anonymous

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

— Ida Tarbell

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

— James Bovard