Amenities Quotes - Page 2

• We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Law, Tolerance

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• There's precious little to say between day and dark,
  Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
  Of time sailing like a magic barque
  Or something as fine for the amenities.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Dark, Sailing

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Average, Years, Today

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Average, Enjoy, Workers

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.327, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. The spending of the rich gives employment to the poor. But the saving of the rich, and their investment of these savings in the means of production, gives just as much employment, and in addition makes that employment constantly more productive and more highly paid, while it also constantly increases and cheapens the production of necessities and amenities for the masses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Giving, Saving

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

  T.I.

  Children, Real, Mean

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.

  Arthur Caplan

  Money, Class, People

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• By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Jobs, Couple, Hard Work

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• Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Summer, Children, Nice

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• Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

  Joseph Joubert

  Criticism, Charm, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.

  G. H. Hardy

  Differences, Creating, Escaping

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• Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.

  Kim Stanley

  Strong, Jobs, Class

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• Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, ... Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home.

  Puff Daddy

  Stars, Home, Years

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• I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Beauty, America, Despair

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore the survival of nearly the entire human race, along with such amenities as peace, freedom, enough to eat, and the chance to reach a high age in good health.

  Poul Anderson

  Space, Race, Civilization

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• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

  Zach Braff

  Player, Garden, Dvds

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• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

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• The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Pain, Demand, Packaging

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• Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.

  Michael Marmot

  Sex, Pain, Cancer

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• A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

  Harold Laski

  Small Numbers, Government, Political

  Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.157, Routledge

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• The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.

  Lionel Trilling

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

  Christopher Flavin

  Real, Lying, Long

  Christopher Flavin (1986). “Electricity for a developing world: new directions”, Worldwatch Inst

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