“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace, stubborn tradition, regulation by custom, organic knowledge instead of mechanistic science -- had to be steadily… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share
