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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.
• A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more…
• Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:…
• We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether…
• Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
• Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which…
• Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing…
• An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. .…
• The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two…
• An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
• 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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