"The key words of violent economics are urbanization,……" — E F Schumacher
"The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical."
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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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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise…
— C. Wright Mills
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They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and…
— Emma Goldman
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We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged,…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the…
— Carroll Quigley
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The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
— Anthony Gregory
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If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so…
— Tim Wu
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The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass…
— Alvin Toffler
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power…
— Douglas MacArthur
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To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests…
— Russell Kirk
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To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a…
— Russell Kirk
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Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our…
— Edward Forbes
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