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E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Best Quotes by E. F. Schumacher (Top 7)

  1. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
  2. Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
  3. Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
  4. Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.