The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

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.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

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.

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

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.