The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.