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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear