Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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

Not mass production but production by the masses.