Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
18
AUTHOR:
Eric Sevareid (1912–92)
QUOTATION:
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.
