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.

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

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

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.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

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.