Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

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

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

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.

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.