Bases Quote by Petra Kelly

“An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.”

— Bryant McGill

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible,…

— Jacque Fresco

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

— Seth Klarman

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up…

— Frank Herbert

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

— Andrew Simms

“Growth is an endlessly iterative process.”

— Mark Manson

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means…

— Nassau William Senior

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition…

— Benjamin Graham

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

— Jacque Fresco

The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size…

— Alan Greenspan

“We approach economic growth from a practical point of view. To do this we look at the history of growth to work out the…

— Edward A. Hudson