Affluence Quotations

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

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.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

Affluence plays a big factor today. Lifestyle expectations have risen, and the premium market is becoming very attractive.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

Affluence means influence.

Affluence = abundant flow.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

True affluence is not needing anything.

True affluence is to not need anything.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

Affluence creates poverty.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

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.

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

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

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?

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.