The Fundamental Task Is To Achieve Smallness

I'm Not At All Contemptuous Of Comforts, But They Have Their Place And It Is Not First.

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.

Our Intentions Tend To Be Much More Real To Us Than Our Actions, And This Can Lead To A Great Deal Of Misunderstanding With Other People, To Whom Our Actions Tend To Be Much More Real Than Our Intentions.

Is There Enough To Go Around? What Is Enough? Who Can Tell Us? Certainly Not The Economist Who Pursues Economic Growth As The Highest Of All Values, And Therefore Has No Concept Of Enough.

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.