"Standard of living" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... immigrants in our country—Germans or any other good, strong, virile nationality. We have no quarrel with the German people. We like them; they are used to a high standard of living and are the ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... people the great majority of them, at least are indifferent, they don't want to be bothered with politics. There will always be labour agitation, of course,—the more wages those fellows get, the more they want. We pay the highest wages in the world to-day, and the standard of living is higher in this country than anywhere else. They'd ruin our prosperity, if ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... Salvation Army retail store as a form of relief, another question arises as to whether the opportunity given to the residents of the district to get things at the Salvation Army's store cheaper than elsewhere interferes with the standard of living. By the standard of living we mean the scale or measure of comfort and satisfaction which a person or a community of persons regards as indispensable to happiness.[34] This would differ in the case of different persons and ...
— The Social Work of the Salvation Army • Edwin Gifford Lamb
... the epoch of the first real success in Frohman's life, but it raised his whole standard of living, as the following ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
... off his toggle. We mustn't execute a nut, no matter how vicious he is. We've got to protect him, feed him, and house him for the next fifty years. Now, not only is he doing Society absolutely no damned good while he's locked up for fifty years, he's also eating up his share of the standard of living. Then to top this off, so long as this nut is alive, there is the danger that some soft-hearted fathead will succeed in getting him ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith |
