Quotes about well-off (9 Quotes)


    There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.

    So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

    So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help--with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way...and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us

    Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins.

    We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.








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