Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

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.

If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.