Robert Wilkinson Quotes

What Wilkinson and others have shown is that poverty is not only a predictor of poor health but, independent of absolute income, so is poverty amid plenty—the more income inequality there is in a society, the worse the health and mortality rates.

Banco Popular helped to finance a global network of so-called vocational schools that targeted young women, many of them still children, from poor backgrounds and coerced them into a life of servitude for Opus Dei. Many were trafficked around the world to meet the needs of the movement. Robert Wilkinson / Alamy

A recent drawbridge design by Chris Wilkinson Architects in Great Britain took the human eyelid, of all things, for its analogical model (see Fig. 8-4). The curvature of the bridge provides structural stability, just as it does for the eyelid. When the “lid” is closed, the bridge is down and people and cars can move across it. When a ship approaches, the lid is raised.

With Robert gone, I’ve decided to leave the fighting world and try to start afresh. If only a fresh start would present itself. The only thing fresh is the tankard of gin in front of me”.