Gross Quote by E. F. Schumacher Download Open image “The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.” — E. F. Schumacher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gross Inspirational Men Products Substance
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP. — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Do yourself a favor and dont inbox me saying dirty freaking stuff. Its plain gross and keep it to yourself.You're like an immature five… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald Copy Share Image
