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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 Quotes)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction (E F Schumacher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods (E F Schumacher Quotes)
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure (E F Schumacher Quotes)
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man’s higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything (E F Schumacher Quotes)
Man’s needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material (E F Schumacher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure (E F Schumacher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist (E F Schumacher Quotes)
Modern economic thinking... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man’s dependence on the natural world (E F Schumacher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need (E F Schumacher Quotes)
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees (E F Schumacher Quotes)
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful (E F Schumacher Quotes)
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society (E F Schumacher Quotes)
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one’s ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed (E F Schumacher Quotes)
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: ‘Halt! We have enough’? There is none (E F Schumacher Quotes)
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. (E F Schumacher Quotes)
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. (E F Schumacher Quotes)
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. (E F Schumacher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is (E F Schumacher Quotes)
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see (E F Schumacher Quotes)
An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory (E F Schumacher Quotes)
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better (E F Schumacher Quotes)
There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been (E F Schumacher Quotes)
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