We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing 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 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
