A Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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America Classes Give How Luxuries Masses Necessities Taken

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American - Leader
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

John Lothrop Motley

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Flora Thompson

The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.

Adolf Hitler

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

Alistair Begg

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Dalai Lama

The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.