Affluence Quotes - Page 5

• We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Parenting, Dangerous World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Silence

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• Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Government, Doe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspiring, Two, Comfort

  Commencement Address at Iona College on June 03, 1984. "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people...Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.

  John Wimber

  Christian, Jesus, Order

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Law, People, Majority

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Organization, People

  "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy". Book by Thomas Frank, 2000.

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• There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Spiritual, Compassion, Animal

  Henryk Skolimowski (1993). “A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth”, HarperElement

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• I do believe in what I call the stewardship of influence as well as the stewardship of affluence. And that is you use whatever God gives you not for your own benefit, but use it to help people who have no benefit. And when you use whatever God gives you, he gives you more of it. When you use it well, he gives you more of it.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."

  Kenneth Tynan

  Indulge In, Luxury, Despair

  "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.

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• Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Ideas, Politics

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• 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.

  Marya Mannes

  Equality, White, Racism

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• The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

  Indira Gandhi

  Birth Control, Birth, Contraceptives

  Indira Gandhi, Som Benegal (1976). “Freedom is the starting point: a collection of memorable words”

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

  Murray Rothbard

  States, Expenses, Devices

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.209, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Years, People

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• 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.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Technology, Politics

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• Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.

  James Ellis

  Home, Humble, Men

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

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Poverty, Politics

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• 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.

  R. S. Thomas

  Fall, Autumn, Long

  "Laboratories of the Spirit" by R. S. Thomas, ("Prayer", p. 10), 1975.

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• New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Cities, Identity

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

  Anne Ellis

  Anxiety, Wealth

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.96, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Self Esteem, World, Unique Talents

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.66, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.8, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• 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.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Peace, Fulfillment In Life, Prosperity

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