Affluent Quote by John W. Gardner

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with…

— Radhanath Swami

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of…

— Stewart Udall

...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of…

— Morris Berman

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the…

— Wallace Carothers

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better…

— Gore Vidal

What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about it, but…

— Al Gore

If people are being left behind, impoverished economically or even culturally, they will always be easily targeted by demagogues of any stripe, exploiting their…

— Garry Kasparov

“inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and…

— Vera Brittain

“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G.…

— Edward Abbey

Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men…

— Tom DeLay

“Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of vigor of our society: increasing fixity of the power structure and bureaucratization of…

— Robert Zubrin

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

— Paul Harrison