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"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies."
"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future."
"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."
"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else."
"In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate."
"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."
"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution."
"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."
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