Affluent Society Quotes
- With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
- The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In… — Eric Hoffer
- The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as… — Frank Church
- Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. — Hubert H. Humphrey
- One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having… — Tenzin Palmo
- In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. — John Kenneth Galbraith
- Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves. — Cynthia Voigt
- But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to… — Alex Campbell