"There are poor societies which have too little;……" — E F Schumacher
"There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none."
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E F Schumacher
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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 Halt Quotes
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one of 230 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on,…
— George Clooney
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On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back…
— Pat Buchanan
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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
— Anna Pavlova
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to…
— Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire…
— George S. Patton
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On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do…
— Sun Tzu
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One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first…
— Ivan Pavlov
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If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.
— Baba Amte
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