Affluence Quotes - Page 2

Affluence means influence.

True affluence is not needing anything.

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

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.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

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.

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

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.

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

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

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

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

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.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!