David Fleming: Doing

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“If an argument is a good one, dissonant deeds do nothing to contradict it. In fact, the hypocrite may have something to be said for him; it would be worrying if his ideals were not better than the way he lives.”

David Fleming

Lean Logic, (2016), p. 203, entry on Hypocrisy http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/

“Do nothing that matters without consulting a conversation.”

David Fleming

Lean Logic, (2016), p. 81, entry on Conversation http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/

“There are two morals to the story. The first is: avoid giving false alarms. The second is: in the end, the wolf came, so do not be misled by previous false alarms into thinking that the latest alarm is false, too. Of these two morals, the second one is more significant. Believing false alarms wastes time, but can lead to some helpful advice for apprentice shepherds; disbelieving all alarms can lead to a local lad being eaten, for starters.”

David Fleming

Third Annual FEASTA Lecture - The Lean Economy: A Vision of Civility for a World in Trouble (2001) http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/fleming.htm

“It's not necessarily against a system that it collapses, because most systems do collapse in the end. That’s a part of the wheel of life - systems do collapse. So I’m to some extent slightly inclined to forgive capitalism for being about to collapse. I mean there are lots of fine things, lots of love affairs and the like which have come to a sticky end. On the other hand, it is quite an accusation - quite hard for it to live down - that it's going to destroy the entire planet with it.”

David Fleming

Interview, November 4th, 2010 http://www.darkoptimism.org/2016/10/14/by-popular-demand-david-flemings-interviews/

“Large-scale problems do not require large-scale solutions; they require small-scale solutions within a large-scale framework.”

David Fleming

Energy and the Common Purpose, 3rd ed. (2007), p. 39 http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/downloads.html#TEQs