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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/it-was-the-task-of-industrial-society-to-destroy-all-of-that-all-that/)

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## More by Kirkpatrick Sale

> [I want to leave my country without leaving my home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/i-want-to-leave-my-country-without-leaving-my-home/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/the-virtue-of-small-government-is-that-the-mistakes-are-small-as-well/)

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> [That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/that-is-the-onslaught-it-has-been-going-on-a-long-time-i-argue-but-in/)

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> [When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/when-i-speak-of-knowledge-of-nature-i-do-not-mean-industrial-science/)

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> [It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/it-s-from-love-and-knowledge-of-nature-that-any-sensible/)

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> [And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/and-it-was-only-when-we-invented-the-spear-and-began-roaming-the/)

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> [That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/that-is-certainly-the-point-when-the-human-species-was-born-on-the/)

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> [Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/economic-and-social-misery-increases-in-direct-proportion-to-the-size/)

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> [So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/so-the-technology-that-does-the-least-alteration-of-nature-the-least/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/my-analysis-especially-of-the-computer-revolution-always-comes-back/)

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> [“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/it-was-the-task-of-industrial-society-to-destroy-all-of-that-all-that/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/i-m-convinced-that-the-catastrophes-of-the-next-two-decades-will-be/)

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> [Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/everyone-is-shy-it-is-the-inborn-modesty-that-makes-us-able-to-live/)

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> [Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirkpatrick-sale/governments-existing-primarily-to-protect-and-enhance-capitalism/)

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