...if these hours be dark, as indeed in many ways they are, at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common t… - William Morris

İnsanğlu yaşamını sürdürme konusunda kaygı duymaya gerek kalmadığını anladığında, isteyerek ve bilinçli bir şeklide gerçekleştirilirse makine işinden daha cazip olabilecek olan elle yapılan işe ilgi göstermeyi ve elle yapılan işten keyif almayı öğrendiğinde, makinelerin olağan şekilde aşırı kullanımı bir süre sonra muhtemelen bir biçimde kısıtlanacaktır.

...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few...

Do not be deceived by the outside appearance of order in our plutocratic society. It fares with it as it does with the older norms of war, that there is an outside look of quite wonderful order about it; how neat and comforting the steady march of the regiment; how quiet and respectable the sergeants look; how clean the polished cannon ... the looks of adjutant and sergeant as innocent-looking as may be, nay, the very orders for destruction and plunder are given with a quiet precision which seems the very token of a good conscience; this is the mask that lies before the ruined cornfield and the burning cottage, and mangled bodies, the untimely death of worthy men, the desolated home.