Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 16 |
AUTHOR: | John William Gardner (19122002) |
QUOTATION: | More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Gardner was secretary of health, education, and welfare 19651968. |
SUBJECTS: | Affluence |