Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how… — Cristian Mungiu Copy Share Image
Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living,… — Jimmy Carter 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
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
The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million.… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna 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
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged… — Horace Rowan Gaither Copy Share Image
Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are… — Robert S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises 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
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the… — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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
Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible… — Ayn Rand 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
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
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