Live Quote by George Monbiot

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

— Coco Chanel

“Many people who live in expensive homes and drive luxury cars do not actually have much wealth. Then, we discovered something even odder: Many…

— Thomas J. Stanley

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full,…

— Thomas More

“Only when we get sufficiently rich can we afford the relative luxury of caring about the environment.”

— Bjorn Lomborg

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich…

— Piero Gheddo

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else,…

— Eustace Budgell

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

— Coco Chanel

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

— Anonymous

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica