Affluent Quotes
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
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.
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.
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.
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.
We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.
None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.
It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.
If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.
It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.
Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
Bill Gates wasn't born rich but he wasn't poor either even before he discovered Microsoft, he was just waiting for a connecting flight to the boulevards of greatness.
Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.