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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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