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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:…
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether…
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which…
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing…
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. .…
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two…
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction,…
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Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
— Juvenal
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Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who…
— Juvenal
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What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I…
— Aldous Huxley
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
— Juvenal
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That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,…
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Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed…
— Juvenal
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering…
— Bill Moyers
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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two…
— Juvenal
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Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people…
— Suzanne Collins
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The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!"…
— Rick Riordan
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Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back…
— Gore Vidal
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