E. F. Schumacher Quotes - Page 2

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Art, Inspire

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Peace, Men

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

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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

  Nature, Men, Battle

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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?

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Greed, Doe

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Sacred, Small Is Beautiful

  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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• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

  E. F. Schumacher

  Hate, People, Complacency

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• The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Ideas, Giving

  "SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Not mass production but production by the masses.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Mass, Mass Production, Productions

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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