Quotes About Affluence

Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

I'm a big fan of Paco Rabanne's 1 Million.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.

I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I'd have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking seaplanes or helicopters out. I did a lot of flying privately to Miami. A lot of shopping.

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

affluence has bought us privacy, and the apparent power to guard it against the encroachments of other people's adversity.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury

in today's America the proud claim of "justice for all" is being replaced by the more modest claim of "justice for those who can afford it.

By day and by night, I am becoming prosperous in all of my interests.

Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own person and practice.

I don't think we can name a single poor nation where population control programs have worked. I don't think we can name a single affluent country that has not reduced population growth, often below ZPG.

For I believe the crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.

In my judgment, the church in the United States must now face hard decisions such as we have not faced for a long time. We have indeed bought in as individual persons, even as a church, on consumerism, aimed at self-indulgence, comfort, security, and safety. We live our lives out of our affluence, and we discover that all our self-indulgence makes us satiated but neither happy nor safe.

The burden of what Jesus says is this: give it away. Give it away gladly. Make friends by your generosity. The door to a gospel future is by generosity, outrageous, intentional giving away in the present to create a viable future. That seems to me such an urgent word, because we are so deeply caught in cycles of greed and affluence and self-indulgence and acquisitiveness of a fearful kind that will yield no human future.

The French like anyone with money and power. - Mikhail Abramov

Grotesque displays of wealth are now the de rigueur. - Sarah Bancroft

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is!

We're in the money,We're in the money,We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!

Many teachers, especially those in more affluent communities, believe they are treated no better than a customer-service representative at a store.

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.