There Can Be Nothing Sacred In Something

The Generosity Of The Earth Allows Us To Feed All Mankind; We Know Enough About Ecology To Keep The Earth A Healthy Place; There Is Enough Room On The Earth, And There Are Enough Materials, So That Everybody Can Have Adequate Shelter; We Are Quite Competent Enough To Produce Sufficient Supplies Of Necessities So That No One Need Live In Misery.

The Most Striking About Modern Industry Is That It Requires So Much And Accomplishes So Little. Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Ordinary Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

Economic Development Is Something Much Wider And Deeper Than Economics, Let Alone Econometrics. Its Roots Lie Outside The Economic Sphere, In Education, Organisation, Discipline And, Beyond That, In Political Independence And A National Consciousness Of Self-reliance.

The Best Aid To Give Is Intellectual Aid, A Gift Of Useful Knowledge. A Gift Of Knowledge Is Infinitely Preferable To A Gift Of Material Things.

The Technology Of Mass Production Is Inherently Violent, Ecologically Damaging, Self-defeating In Terms Of Non-renewable Resources, And Stultifying For The Human Person.