Armament Quote by Aldous Huxley

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

— Aldous Huxley

The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of…

— Arthur Demarest

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world…

— Hassan al-Banna

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce…

— Laura Esquivel

Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of…

— Paul Achleitner

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Poverty must be eradicated, the resources of our planet used sustainably, human rights respected, equality between men and women strengthened, HIV/AIDS and other diseases…

— Goran Persson

The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of confidence in…

— Anne Applebaum

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

— Paul Polman