Battle Quote by E. F. Schumacher

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss…

— E. F. Schumacher

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

— E. F. Schumacher

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

— E. F. Schumacher

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit…

— E. F. Schumacher

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make…

— E. F. Schumacher

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

— E. F. Schumacher

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are…

— E. F. Schumacher

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

— E. F. Schumacher

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of…

— E. F. Schumacher

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

— E. F. Schumacher

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a…

— E. F. Schumacher

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about…

— E. F. Schumacher