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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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Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
— Noam Chomsky
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the…
— Mamphela Ramphele
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
— Paul Samuelson
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Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of…
— Ron Paul
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There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
— Josh Billings
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
— Greg Bear
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The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the…
— Henry Ford
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