“Under the tutelage of their economic counselors, political leaders manipulate discount rates and the money supply with all the confidence of space scientists at Cape Kennedy pushing the buttons and throwing the switches which guide rocket ships to the moon.” — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Under the tutelage of their economic counselors, political leaders manipulate discount rates and the money supply with all the confidence of space scientists at… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“The whole intellectual edifice collapsed in the summer of last year because the data inputted into the risk management models generally covered only the… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Toward the end of his presidency, he gave one of his most famous speeches, diagnosing a crisis of confidence in the country and attacking… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.” — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple” — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Education which fails to clarify our central convictions is mere training or indulgence. For it is our central convictions that are in disorder, and,… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“If greed were not the master of modern man--ably assisted by envy--how could it be that the frenzy of economism does not abate as… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power, culture, attraction… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Education can help us only if it produces "whole men." The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything,… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“...because from bigness comes impersonality, insensitivity and a lust to concentrate abstract power.” — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
