Affluence Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. What…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us…

— Anonymous

That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are…

— Jon Stewart

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic,…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to…

— Diablo Cody

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

— Donald James

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

— Fanny Fern