E. F. Schumacher Quotes - Page 4

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• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Clever, Research, Disease

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

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Substance, Gross

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

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• Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Long, Soul

  Small is Beautiful (1973) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Tree, Decay, World

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

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• The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Generosity, Healthy, Needs

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• The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Self, Renewable Resources

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

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• From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Sacrifice, Views, Comfort

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

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• It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Teaching, Perfection, Alive

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• Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Order, Organization, Likes

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

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• Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

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  Independence, Needs, Existential

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• I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

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  Blow, Wind, World

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• You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

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  Book, Reading, Order

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• Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

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  Eye, Challenges, Desire

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

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• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Imagination, Degrees, Modern

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• The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

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  Littles, Modern, Accomplish

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

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• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

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  Civilization, Skills, Achievement

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

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• After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

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  Change, Moon, Society

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

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• Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

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  Land, Scarcity, Answers

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• Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Self, Roots

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• The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

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  Heart, Two, Matter

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

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• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

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  Ambition, Economic, Masters

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

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• True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Art, Men, Ordinary

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