Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

Not mass production but production by the masses.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

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.

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