Quotes about affluence
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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. Tim Jackson
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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. Margaret Drabble
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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. Charles Jencks
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For the Left, affluence is won, not earned. Dennis Prager
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True affluence is not needing anything. Gary Snyder
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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence. Indira Gandhi
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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. P. J. O'Rourke
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Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things. Francis Schaeffer
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Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security. Suze Orman
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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. John C. Calhoun
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. Adam Smith
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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.