Richard G. Wilkinson Quotes

• If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Dream, Motivation, Inspiration

  "TED Global 2011: Forget Glastonbury, this is Nerdstock" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Organization, Toxic, Patterns

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• ... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Health, Life Is Short, Class

  Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (1986). “Class and health”

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• In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Development, Way, Environment

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