E. F. Schumacher Quotes
E. F. Schumacher Quotes:- Welcome to this collection of wise words from respected economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher. Schumacher's theories, w
E. F. Schumacher Quotes
"Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side" ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed" ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Not mass production but production by the masses." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins." ~ E. F. Schumacher
"To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal." ~ E. F. Schumacher
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