A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

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

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.

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.