Affluence Quotes
Affluence Quote of the day
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace.
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
Donald Trump connected with the American public because they wanted to be like him. They aspired to be just like him. They wanted to see all of his affluence, and he let them see it.
The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.
Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.
Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
