Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered… — 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 Image
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 Image
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
