• 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.

    John W. Gardner: 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.
    "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.