“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
Leonard Read Journals, November 4, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-november-1951/
"Kurukshetra" in Essays on the Gita (1995), p. 39
Context: Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon; and only those who do not limit their view to the act and its immediate results, can see how tremendous are its after-effects, how much is eventually destroyed and with that much all the life that depended upon it and fed upon it. Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence.
Part One, chapter 4, page 18
Why Government Doesn't Work (1995)
“Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don't stay broke.”
Source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11882368/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes
“New ideas are the only evolutionary force that will save us from destruction.”
Spark (2014)
Context: True ideology has vanished, replaced by fear and fantasy. The right wing wants corporate control and a return to a past that never existed. The left wing wants government control and a future that will never exist. Both groups lose sight of the essential questions: how can the individual speak and think and create freely? New ideas are the only evolutionary force that will save us from destruction.
Introduction to Capital. Introduction to volume 1 (1976)
