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.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

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

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.