“When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been brought about by the knowledge of God through the practice of the virtues has reached maturity, it starts to grow anew. For the end of one stage constitutes the starting point of the next.” Has BeensEndsChristianOrderNextGrowsGrowthNaturalPracticeVirtueStageStartingCeaseMaturityOrthodoxStarting PointKnowledge Of God Author:Maximus the Confessor
“We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.” BelieveWould BeJobsGrowthCompanyDesignProduceAmbitionFairsProfitStoresCeaseSustainabilityProfitableContradictoryNew Job Author:Karl-Johan Persson
“It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.” MayHas BeensIdeasForceGrowthTakenDependsDestructionEssenceFoundationCeaseGrantedCarrieFree SocietyTaken For Granted Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.” IfsShouldStatesHelpingMightDesireSufferingWishGrowthGreaterIndiaRegardPossessionRussiaCeaseRejoiceIrelandEnglishmenProvincesDecreasePolandWeakeningFinlandArmenia Book:Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.” LooksGrowthEconomyProgressEconomicEternalMythCeaseLook UpZeroStableUnnecessaryDesirableExpandingEconomic GrowthNonsensical Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.” WayTodayEnergyGrowthKnownEconomyEconomicCenturyCeaseLocalsAgriculture21st CenturyEconomic GrowthParadigm Author:James Howard Kunstler
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” RealityTruthPoliticalLiteratureGrowsGrowthAtheismCeaseDogmaPolitical SystemsReligious Dogma Author:Anais Nin