Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. — Ludwig von Mises 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
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and… — Frank Dane 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 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
I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of… — Antony Burgmans Copy Share Image
Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa 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
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves.… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And… — Ron Paul 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
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
…I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and… — Jane Goodall 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
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions.… — Jonathan Duhamel 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
We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in… — Vijay Mallya Copy Share Image
Don't take it out on the Muslims. Don't take it out on Latinos. Try to help us work together to create a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that… — Thabo Mbeki 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
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
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe,… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
