Affluence Quotes

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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately,… — Jamie Johnson
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. — Sarah Waters
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an… — Jonathan Miller
Affluence means influence. — Jack London
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or… — Denis Diderot
People who live in affluence for all of life can easily become so accustomed to wealth, blessings, and prosperity that they can easily forget what… — Craig Williams
The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be… — Daniel S Greenberg
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps… — John Wimber

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