Living Standards Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes… — David Cameron
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the… — Chris Christie
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined… — John L. Lewis
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. — Ralph Raico
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment… — Paul Samuelson
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically… — Leonardo DiCaprio
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous… — Raimond Gaita
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and… — Llewellyn Rockwell
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of… — Noam Chomsky
This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of… — Julian Simon
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the… — Paul Krugman
People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from… — Lucy Powell
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards. — Li Peng
Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less… — John Redwood
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden
With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving… — Jared Bernstein
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is… — George F. Kennan
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more… — Bill Bryson

Who Wrote These Living Standards Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Living Standards Quotes as follows: