Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and… — 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
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live… — 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:… — 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… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material. — 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
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . . — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature... — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein 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
I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Small is beautiful only if it soulful and heart-touching to the noble minds. — Ritu Ghatourey 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
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
