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“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is "good for the economy," and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.”

Years May Littles Stills Enough Water Pay Economy Growing Cost Rivers Drinking Environmental Streams Nevertheless Drinking Water Affluent Plentiful

Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

“Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.”

“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.”

School Behinds Doors Grew Horror Grew Up Neighborhood Closed Doors Affluent Behind Closed Doors Prestigious

Author:Kirby Wright

“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.”

“The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“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?”

Wells America Faces Poor Responsible Fellows Well Being Affluence Affluent

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“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.”

Reason Opportunity Mistake Assuming Western Manage Advancement Integrating Affluence Slums Affluent Islamists Western Society Good Opportunity

Author:Otto Schily

“But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.”

Seems Difficult Greater Progress Essentials Meaningful Despite Ingredients Lacking Meaningful Life Affluence Affluent

Author:Alex Campbell

“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.”

Poor Economic Aspect Sanity Lacking Behalf Stimulation Expenditures Affluent Soundness Undeserving

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.”

“I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.”

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Author:Floyd Norman

“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.”

People Wells Fields Fund Equity Astonishing Affluent Hedge Fund Private Equity

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed to tell. Having been working with the homeless for the past years, I noticed lots of things about them, but one thing I really noticed was that they were probably too busy just getting though the day to make a film about themselves.”

People Years Stories Past Film Wonder One Thing Busy Homeless Too Busy Affluent

Author:Paul Bettany

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

Society Pollution Ecology Affluence Affluent

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.”

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Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Obama's assault on the affluent rests upon a sky-high stack of lies. Obama is too well staffed and too well informed not to know otherwise. So, maddeningly, he straight-out lies to the American people.”

People Knows Wells Lying Sky Assault Affluent Sky High

Author:Deroy Murdock

“There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.”

Cases Struggle Possibility Doctors Locals Enlightening Affluent Ulcers

Author:Nelson Rockefeller

“Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.”

Looks Made Happens Wealth Poverty Truth Is Elements Concepts Responsible Careful Be Careful Deprived Affluent Peace Is Every Step Wealth And Poverty

Author:Nhat Hanh

“My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.”

People Thinking Made Able School Mother Wish Parent Teacher Wonderful College Goes On High School Hills Affluent Diploma Extremity Appalachia Wonderful Teacher High School Diploma

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.”

Stills I Can Artist Pay New York Musician Drinking Complaining Charm Realised Bourgeois Affluent

Author:Moby

“I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.”

Should Doe Ideas Government Stuff Cutting Agree Budgets Welfare Parks Coming Out Fbi Entitlement Affluent Medicaid

Author:David Brooks

“Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.”

World Said Problem School House Poor Streets Television Depends Clean Expensive Private Sector Filthy Affluent Public Sector Clean House

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.”

Men Sometimes Problem Beautiful Findings Finding Love Affluent

Author:Nas

“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.”

“What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.”

People Problem Seems Worry Creatures Capitalism Historical West Extremes Focused Fats Consumers Paradise Consumption Consumerism Consuming Overconsumption Affluent Ambivalent

Author:Rodney Clapp

“If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.”

People Ifs Matter Poor Failing No Matter What Sunday Neglect God's Love Needy Affluent Love No Matter What

Author:Ronald J. Sider

“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.”

People Thinking Economy Products Green Elites More Money Niche Cleaners Affluent Greener Green Economy

Author:Van Jones

“They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.”

Two Pay Rich Cutting Taxes Benefits Aspect Fund Household Unpredictable Tax Cuts Affluent

Author:Judy Woodruff

“The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.”

“One of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it's over really crucial- you know, foundational issues.”

People Thinking Knows Country Government Difficult Issues Busy Crucial Affluent

Author:Jon Stewart

“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.”

Years Humans Wells Has Beens Today Humanity Culture Pleasure Poverty Failing Cost Standards Percent Hundred Years Ago Well Being Our Time Severe Could Have Been Standards Of Living Affluent

Author:Thomas Pogge

“If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for still-patented advanced medicines at the pharmacy, for comprehensive insurance coverage or for a national health system.”

Ifs Stills Today Asks Answers Innovation Medicine Population Comprehensive Coverage Affluent Pharmaceutical Pharmacy Health System

Author:Thomas Pogge

“For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an affordable price, then affluent people would find ways to buy it cheaply as well - and then the innovator would be poorly rewarded and introductions of new medicines would decline.”

People Ifs Way Wells Would Be Poor Innovation Medicine Access Decline Poor People Introduction Affordable Innovators Excluded Affluent

Author:Thomas Pogge

“You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.”

“Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they can exert little influence on institutional design decisions. We need to break out of this vicious spiral and create momentum in the opposite direction.”

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Author:Thomas Pogge

“[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of history, and in the decades to come we will be comparatively destitute collectively. In short, we will not have the resources to retrofit most of suburbia.”

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Author:James Howard Kunstler

“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.”

Facts Wealth Harder Affluent

Author:Dennis Prager

“Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.”

“My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.”

Made Father Air Mines Built My Family Saved Yards Affluent Copper Good Money

Author:Wilbur Smith

“One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.”

People Helping Home Christian Poor Common One Thing Wind Filled Lovely Attractive Pet Affluent Lovely Family

Author:Jo Brand

“I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.”

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers”

Want Mean Nations Animal Pay Land Planets Sake Forests Preserves Meat Gambling Appetite Our Planet Hamburgers Affluent Prodigious Agribusiness

Author:Peter Singer

“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!”

People World Christian Wealth Millions Tragedy Edges Minorities Ironic Starvation Affluent

Book:Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

Source: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

“The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the west, we're opening our purses and moths are flying out - but we've got to remember that, in other markets, this is not an issue.”

World Remember Business Issues Goes On Becoming West Spending Flying Opening More Money Purses Becoming More Moths Affluent

Author:Joe Staton

“One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.”

Made Wealth Luxury Distinction Affluent

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.”

Way Mean Greatness Intellectual Streams Receiving Gifted Anecdotes Affluent Leading The Way Leading On

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.”

Earth Dies Poverty Hell Rich Greedy Go To Hell Affluent

Author:Al Capone

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