Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

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.