Affluent Quote by John W. Gardner

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in…

— John W. Gardner

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

— Karl Marx

The more we give away, the richer we become.

— Eben Moglen

The more we bestow the richer we become.

— Thomas Paine

“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what…

— Dan Fagin

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

— Richard Ojeda

We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing,…

— Paul Hawken

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is…

— Anonymous

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

— Anonymous

As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth…

— Joe Lonsdale

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view…

— Will Durant