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“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

#Technology #Men #Self
“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Beautiful #Technology #Demand
“There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Generosity #Incredibles
“Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Intelligent #Simplicity #Genius
“Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Organization #Discipline #People
“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Courage #Growth #World
“If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Errors #Missing #Risk
“Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Attitude #Greatness #Eagles
“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

#Generations #Earth #Way
“Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Soulmate #Giving #Something Better
“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 #Sail #Raises
“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

#Men #Battle #Sides
“Many people love in themselves what they hate in others”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Hate #People
“I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Comfort #Firsts #Contemptuous
“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
“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
“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 #Knowledge #Pigs
“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 #World
“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

#Sacred #Explanation
“To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Animal #Missing #Doubt
“I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Beautiful #Real #Mean
“By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Spiritual #Mean #Tree
“The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Life #Country #Keys
“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
“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.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Land #Scarcity #Answers
“Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Running #Tinkering #Inventor
“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”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Order #Technique #Needs
“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
“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
“At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.”
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Doubt #Growth #Use

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