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

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

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

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

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.