E. F. Schumacher Quotes - Page 2

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• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

  E. F. Schumacher

  Hate, People, Complacency

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• Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Wind, Climate Change, Sail

  "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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• The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Giving, Intellectual, Aids

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

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Joy, Leisure, Bliss

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

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• We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Nature, Men, Fellow Man

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

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• A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Environmental, Generations, Earth

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• An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Attitude, Principles

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

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Tasks, Looks, World

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• We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Fellow Man, Made

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

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Worthwhile Things, Pay, Impossible

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

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• Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

  E. F. Schumacher

  Real, Opposites, Incompatibility

  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.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Real, People, Our Actions

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Poison, Benefits

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

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• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Compassion, Attachment, People

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

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• Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Beautiful, Men, Growth

  Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered pt. 2, ch. 5 (1973)

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• There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Generosity, Incredibles

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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.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Growth, Economic, Enough

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

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• Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Simple, Needs, Simple Living

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• It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Envy, Greed

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

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• There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Littles, Rich, Enough

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

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• Not mass production but production by the masses.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Mass, Mass Production, Productions

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• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Fall, Thinking, Hands

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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny Work, Income, Might

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• The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Tasks, Fundamentals, Achieve

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

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