#affluence

Affluence means influence. ↗

— Jack London

#influence #means

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! ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #hunger #irony #majority #minority

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #freedom #wealth #art

Affluence creates poverty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#creates #poverty

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. 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 a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#auditorium #austere #back #call #cast

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#good #good life #itself #life #luxury

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security. ↗

— Suze Orman

#affluence #both #emotional #financial #home

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#affluence #ancient #comfort #culture #forced

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#change #democratic #desire #does #economies