Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one...

Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way...

Eugene H. Peterson Quote About Luxury, Numbers, People: Too Much Of The Worlds...

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