We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.[La société de la production est seulement productrice, non créatrice.]
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.[Le mythe de la production indéfinie porte en lui la guerre comme la nuée l’orage.]
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
A creation of importance could be produced only when its author isolates himself.
