Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
16
AUTHOR:
John William Gardner (1912–2002)
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:
JOHN W. GARDNER, No Easy Victories, ed. Helen Rowan, p. 57 (1968).
Gardner was secretary of health, education, and welfare 1965–1968.
