Standards Of Living Quotes - Page 9

• Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

  Ayn Rand

  Greed, Citizens, Height

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.167, Penguin

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• We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wild And Free, Cost, Faces

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

  Mark Batterson

  Giving, God Bless You, Standards

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2013

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• When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

  John Sweeney

  Fall, Economic Inequality, Gaps

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• Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Technology, Selfishness

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Boss, Unions

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.147, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Government, Goal

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

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• But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

  Charles Koch

  Entrepreneur, Erode, Want

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• America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.

  Ann Bridge

  Thinking, America, People

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• Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must
  understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

  Harvey Milk

  Dream, Mistake, Cities

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• Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.

  Chris Chocola

  Race, Soul, Done

  "Rick Santorum secures conservative Christian endorsement; debate over Mitt Romney's business record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes.

  William S. Burroughs

  Morning, Thinking, Korea

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• Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

  Yair Lapid

  Country, Israel, High Standards

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• A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.

  Thomas Pogge

  Years, Humanity, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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