Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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.
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressi...
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
Love is an ornament of the affluent, there can be no love if you need to fight for your existence.
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.
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.
The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
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.
