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Aeschylus
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, Let no more riches enter!
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Alan Gregg
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
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Aldous Huxley, Island
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Bill Vaughan
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Charles Wagner
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
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Confucius
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
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Don Marquis
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
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E.F. Schumacher
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Friedrich Holderlin
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
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Goethe
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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Groucho Marx
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.
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Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
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