E. F. Schumacher Quotes

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• Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

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  Thinking, Forever, Insane

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• We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

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  Success, Integrity, Soul

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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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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  Technology, Men, Self

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Technology, Demand

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

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  Organization, Discipline, People

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

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  People, Attention, Goods

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

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  Imagination, Ordinary, Degrees

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

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  Life, Art, Inspire

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• The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

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  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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• At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.

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  Doubt, Growth, Use

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

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  People, Healthy, Three Things

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• The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

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  People, Giving, Ego

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• No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

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  Peace, Restoration

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Technology, Progress

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• I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

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  Wind, Sail, Ready

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• Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

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  Spiritual, Peace, Men

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

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  Intelligent, Simplicity, Genius

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

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  Tasks, Looks, World

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• The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

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  Worthwhile Things, Pay, Impossible

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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

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  Business, Angel, Rushing

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?

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  Men, Greed, Doe

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

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  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

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  Sacred, Small Is Beautiful

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

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  Real, People, Our Actions

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