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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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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
— Aesop
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
— E F Schumacher
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Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the…
— Jeff Cooper
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[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of…
— Vincent de Paul
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Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me…
— Gerry Spence
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Good servants frequently make good masters.
— Jupiter Hammon
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Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes…
— Fanny Kemble
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Good leaders must first become good servants.
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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