A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs can be heard,
Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another. – Lao-Tzu