All E F Schumacher Quotes
- The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. Adjusting
- A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for… Called
- Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… Beautiful
- 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… Bother
- Our faith gives us knowledge of something better. Better
- Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. Appreciate
- Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years… Absorb
- Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side Battle
- An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . . Attention
- The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and… Fact
- An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory. Inspirational
- Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no… Challenge
- Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect… Asia
- Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see. Directly
- Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our… All
- The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree… Accomplish
- We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher… Accident
- Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of… Bliss
- There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none. Halt
- 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 skepticism,… All
- The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If… Appear
- If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters Ambition
- You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and… All
- Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market Bring
- Many people love in themselves what they hate in others Hate
More Ways to Read E F Schumacher Quotes
- Best E F Schumacher Quotes (E F Schumacher Quotes)
- Best E F Schumacher Sayings (E F Schumacher Quotes)