“Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.” MoralPracticeEconomicBirthRevolutionaryBirth Control Book:A Preface to Morals Source: A Preface to Morals
“Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.” WorldShouldTeachPracticeSupportMeditationEconomicMaterialsInvolvedSpreadExpensiveDharmaMaterial WorldMeditation Practice Author:Frederick Lenz
“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.” ShouldLittlesRealPoliticalPoliticsCausesPovertyPracticeEconomyDemocracyEconomicPromiseCapitalismUltimateDemocraticClimateTerrorismDoctrineOppressionIdeologyLiberalismConservatismBankruptcyPluralismOxymoronPlutocracy Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.” PeopleHas BeensEnoughWisdomGovernmentOrderPoliticsStrongPracticeEconomyEconomicPolicyPropertyLiberalismStrong EnoughEconomic Policy Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.” HandsPracticeEconomicDesignCapitalismDefinitionsExclusionEconomic Power Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.” PeopleHas BeensWarHandsPoliticalReligiousChristianityPracticeGoneEconomicEventsBuddhismHolyConcernedEternityViolentTheologyOppressionObsessedHinduismConsistentlyImperialismJudaismHumaneHand In HandHoly WarProselytizingHinduism And Buddhism Author:Aldous Huxley
“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.” NeedsBookStatesPhilosophyWholeUnitedResultsOpinionPracticeUnited StatesEconomicDangerMovedInvestingContraryPracticalsAgreementApplicationProgrammesLead InDisillusionEnlargementRoad To Serfdom Author:John Maynard Keynes
“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.” WantNeedsReasonLightLawIndividualNationsResultsEffortPracticeEconomyEconomicSubjectsElementsBuiltFormerLatterNational Economy Author:Ralph Raico
“For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.” IfsLongAsksPracticeEconomicWillingOceanSpeciesBurdenFishingIrrationalSelection Author:Barton Seaver