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
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not… — 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
![“...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that…” quote by E. F. Schumacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15c/e-f-schumacher-8282_body_liberation-from-constraints-that-operate_2706636.jpg)
