Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear