This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.