Material Welfare

Famous quotes containing the words material and/or welfare:

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the People.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)