It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.
Peter BuffettWhatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
Peter BuffettThings today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.
Peter BuffettPatriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
Peter Buffett