Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

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.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

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.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side