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.

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.

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.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

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

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.