What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.