"Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each……" — E F Schumacher
"Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it."
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71 Quotes by E F Schumacher
E F Schumacher has 71 quotes on this site.
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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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You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going…
— Clay Aiken
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A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him.…
— Simon Soloveychik
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If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and…
— Nhat Hanh
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You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open…
— Learned Hand
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being…
— Matt Taibbi
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Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to…
— Augustus William Hare
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Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any…
— Charles E. Wilson
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When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.
— Ilkin Santak
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