Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature... — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . . — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
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… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
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… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share
