George S. Patton Quotes

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got. That's something we're not good at in the Western world.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.

The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European but an Asiatic and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese and, from what I’ve seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other amiable characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of a bitch, a barbarian, and a chronic drunk.

For years, before coming here, I had read of the quiet dignity of the Arab. He is quiet, but is the lity, in my opinion, is pure dumbness. His aquiline face, which in the pure bred ones is quite impressive, is really the face of a dumb man.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

He was in time to witness the destruction of the Summer Palace at Peking--the act by which Lord Elgin, in the name of European civilization, took vengeance upon the barbarism of the East.

Although the market and opportunities for consumption seem to offer a counterbalance to the government's authoritarian powers, many Chinese are ambivalent about the forces of Westernization and marketization and the rapidly growing gap between rich and poor

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

… the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples, instead of the most westerly of easterns, that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

I don't think happiness comes with money, but if you are hungry, you can't be as happy as if you aren't hungry.

Everybody needs money, obviously, but that's far from being the most important thing in the world to me.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.