“Good ends, as I have frequently to point out, can be achieved only by the employment of appropriate means. The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.”
― Ends and Means
― Ends and Means
“It is the unco-ordinated activity of large-scale production that leads to those periodical crises and depressions which inflict such untold hardship upon the working masses of the people in industrialized countries. Small-scale production carried on by individuals who own the instruments with which they personally work is not subject to periodical slumps. Furthermore, the ownership of the means of small-scale, personal production has none of the disastrous political, economic and psychological consequences of large-scale production-loss of independence, enslavement to an employer, insecurity of the tenure of employment.”
― Ends and Means
― Ends and Means
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you do is for yourself And there isn't one.
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“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
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Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
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“THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,
and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.”
― All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living
and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.”
― All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living
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