Affluent Quote by Hubert H. Humphrey Download Open image “Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.” — Hubert H. Humphrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affluent Society
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others. — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are.… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. — Bill James Copy Share Image
We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school,… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Obama's assault on the affluent rests upon a sky-high stack of lies. Obama is too well staffed and too well informed not to know… — Deroy Murdock Copy Share Image
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
