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.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

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

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.