The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.
In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance. ' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). . . . I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.
While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U. S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.
College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
