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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
— E.F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
— E.F. Schumacher
To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now.
— E.F. Schumacher
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
There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.
— E.F. Schumacher
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature ...
— E.F. Schumacher
Not mass production but production by the masses.
— E.F. Schumacher
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.
— E.F. Schumacher
The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
— E.F. Schumacher
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
— E.F. Schumacher
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
— 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
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
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
— E.F. Schumacher
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
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I cannot predict the wind but I can have my 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.
— E.F. Schumacher
No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
— 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
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
— E.F. Schumacher
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
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
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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.
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
— E.F. Schumacher
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
— E.F. Schumacher
The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
— E.F. Schumacher
Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E.F. Schumacher
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.
— E.F. Schumacher
There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.
— E.F. Schumacher
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.
— E.F. Schumacher
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E.F. Schumacher
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
— E.F. Schumacher
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
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
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Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
— E.F. Schumacher
An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
— E.F. Schumacher
Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.
— E.F. Schumacher
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods ...
— E.F. Schumacher
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
— E.F. Schumacher
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
