A Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith
American - Economist
October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

Thomas S. Monson

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Cher

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Oscar Wilde

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Andrew Carnegie

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

Flora Thompson

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

Alistair Begg

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

John Lothrop Motley

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

Carroll Quigley

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.