Affluence Quotes
70 quotes by 60 authors
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The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
— William Blake
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We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
— Walter J. Phillips
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In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in…
— Alexander Pope
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Affluence creates poverty.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
— Suze Orman
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to…
— Shimon Peres
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For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
— Dennis Prager
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We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries…
— Peter Singer
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
— Tacitus
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
— Mark Twain
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According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you…
— Deepak Chopra
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality.…
— Richard J. Foster
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
— Wendell Berry
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I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
— Lee Child
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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence…
— Adam Smith
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The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become…
— Charles Jencks
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Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
— Jesse Schell
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