Julian Baggini Quotes

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en masse; it wasn't so much a phenomenon of great numbers of people rising from one class to the next as it was standards of living rising sharply for all classes. You didn't have to be exceptional to rise.

The day I stopped drinking milk' is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is 'normal' for us falls under the category of 'expensive' or 'unaffordable' for middle or poor class.

One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.

I think that I represent people that sometimes don't have a voice because of how they grew up or where they grew up or the options that were given to them. I was able to kick my way out of that, but we have a real class problem in this country, where it's hard to jump classes.

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important food issue is how to feed the poor or the hardworking middle class.

The people that buy music might not be able to afford to buy music. It might not even be a situation where people don't want to buy your stuff. It might be a situation where they can't afford to buy it because food prices are too high. I can respect that.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.

Still blows my mind that toilet paper isn't free.