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Economic Quotes by E F Schumacher
- 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…
- Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
- 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…
- 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…
- If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
- The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic…
- There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.
- It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces…
- The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
- Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and,…
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- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat