Quotes About Socioeconomic

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

A developed country isn't a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

Approximately 60 per cent of the agricultural population was deemed to be too poor to pay taxes.

In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV.

The poor are poor, not stupid — and their living conditions are different in each country.

percent; in Detroit it reached 50 percent. There

At what point had I realized that class couldn't save you, that addiction or mental illness didn't care whether you'd taken piano lessons or spent a summer in Europe?

Greeks are just Jews without money.

In America, the talk now is all about white privilege, but regardless of your race, there's American privilege as well, or at least Western privilege. It means that when you're in Dakar or Minsk your embassy is open and staffed, and you don't need to hand out bribes in order to get

People aren't poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they're poor.

No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless." "I

I am not as ingenious as these people. No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.

I don't see anything ingenious about poverty like this. I don't see anything ingenious about having ten children when you can't afford one." Fern put his glasses back on and smiled at me sadly. "Children can be a kind of wealth," he said.

People are not poor because they've made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they're poor.

Poverty is not just a headline, my love, it's a lived reality, on the ground—and education is at the heart of it." "I

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

During epidemics, the rich have nearly always outsurvived the poor. In some cases they've even benefited

The working class positively benefited from Hitler`s rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.

Con todo y el atraso de la región, el hecho curioso es que en la Nicaragua de inicios del siglo XIX había menos hambre que en la Francia de Víctor Hugo y más paz que en la convulsa Europa.

The fact that the countries with the highest birth rates generally have the lowest standard of living and produce the least pollution fatally undermines such claims - if the poorest 3 billion people on the planet somehow disappeared tomorrow, there would be virtually no reduction in ongoing environmental destruction.

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.