There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — 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
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which… — 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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — 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: they are… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.” quote by E. F. Schumacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c0/e-f-schumacher-8282_centralization_the-key-words-of-violent-economics-are-u_1438975.jpg)
