From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

Not mass production but production by the masses.

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

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear