Faith Quote by E.F. Schumacher

“Under the tutelage of their economic counselors, political leaders manipulate discount rates and the money supply with all the confidence of space scientists at…

— E.F. Schumacher

“The whole intellectual edifice collapsed in the summer of last year because the data inputted into the risk management models generally covered only the…

— E.F. Schumacher

“Toward the end of his presidency, he gave one of his most famous speeches, diagnosing a crisis of confidence in the country and attacking…

— E.F. Schumacher

“People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.”

— E.F. Schumacher

“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple”

— E.F. Schumacher

“To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but…

— E.F. Schumacher

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in…

— E.F. Schumacher

“If greed were not the master of modern man--ably assisted by envy--how could it be that the frenzy of economism does not abate as…

— E.F. Schumacher

“What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And…

— E.F. Schumacher

“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power, culture, attraction…

— E.F. Schumacher

“Education can help us only if it produces "whole men." The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything,…

— E.F. Schumacher

“...because from bigness comes impersonality, insensitivity and a lust to concentrate abstract power.”

— E.F. Schumacher