"The substance of man cannot be measured by……" — E F Schumacher
"The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product."
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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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More Gross Quotes
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one of 338 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and…
— Madeleine Albright
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
— Bennett Cerf
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
— Madonna Ciccone
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
— Pamela Anderson
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This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be…
— John Nelson Darby
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
— Samuel Johnson
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is…
— George Amos Dorsey
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
— Frederick Douglass
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment…
— Francis Bacon
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Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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