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
If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — 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
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether… — 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
At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of… — 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 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
