"Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment……" — E F Schumacher
"Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction."
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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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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
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