"The real problems of our planet are not……" — E F Schumacher
"The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events."
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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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