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Our government has been hijacked by big business.

— Steve Hallett The Efficiency Trap (2013)

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Cellular systems, ecosystems, and civilizations are, at base, thermodynamic systems.

The Efficiency Trap (2013)

America does not have to rely on vast volumes of oil and natural gas to make food.

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Fixed energy limits have not limited the progress of nature.

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A society that supports a wealthy few at the expense of the larger population is unlikely to persist.

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It is too late to slow this runaway train down before it tumbles into the chasm.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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