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One Quotes by E F Schumacher
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
- By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one…
- The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
- Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
- The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is…
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