Our Ordinary Mind Always Tries To Persuade

We Must Do What We Conceive To Be The Right Thing, And Not Bother Our Heads Or Burden Our Souls With Whether We Are Going To Be Successful. Because If We Don't Do The Right Thing, We'll Be Doing The Wrong Thing, And We Will Just Be Part Of The Disease, And Not A Part Of The Cure.

No Degree Of Prosperity Could Justify The Accumulation Of Large Amounts Of Highly Toxic Substances Which Nobody Knows How To Make Safe And Which Remain An Incalculable Danger To The Whole Of Creation For Historical Or Even Geological Ages. To Do Such A Thing Is A Transgression Against Life Itself, A Transgression Infinitely More Serious Than Any Crime Perpetrated By Man. The Idea That A Civilization Could Sustain Itself On Such A Transgression Is An Ethical, Spiritual, And Metaphysical Monstrosity. It Means Conducting The Economical Affairs Of Man As If People Did Not Matter At All.

Modern Man Talks Of A Battle With Nature, Forgetting That, If He Won The Battle, He Would Find Himself On The Losing Side

The Key Words Of Violent Economics Are Urbanization, Industrialization, Centralization, Efficiency, Quantity, Speed. . . . The Problem Of Evolving A Nonviolent Way Of Economic Life [in The West] And That Of Developing The Underdeveloped Countries May Well Turn Out To Be Largely Identical.

After All, For Mankind As A Whole There Are No Exports. We Did Not Start Developing By Obtaining Foreign Exchange From Mars Or The Moon. Mankind Is A Closed Society.