I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.