"Perhaps never before have the peoples of the world been so close to losing the very core of their humanity; for of wh…"

"It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in whic…"

"Max Beer, in his History of British Socialism, points out that Bacon looked for the happiness of mankind chiefly in t…"

"The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the Europea…"

"(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generatio…"

"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less imp…"

"Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy [but] the bourgeois culture which dominates…"

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

"If we are to create balanced human beings, capable of entering into world-wide co-operation with all other men of goo…"

"I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities."