Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.