"It is doubly chimerical to build peace on……" — E F Schumacher
"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 which drive men into conflict."
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71 Quotes by E F Schumacher
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up…
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not…
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls…
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest…
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on…
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to…
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem…
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge…
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