Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

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.

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.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.