E. F. Schumacher Quotes

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The greatest deprivation anyone can suffer is to have no chance of looking after himself and making a livelihood. - E. F. Schumacher quote.
The greatest deprivation anyone can suffer is to have no chance of looking after himself and making a livelihood.
— E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

unemployment

All great works of art are "about God" in the sense that they show the perplexed human being the path, the way up the mountain. - E. F. Schumacher quote.
All great works of art are "about God" in the sense that they show the perplexed human being the path, the way up the mountain.
— E. F. Schumacher A Guide for the Perplexed

God art

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 quote.
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

environment

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - E. F. Schumacher quote.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
— E. F. Schumacher

simplicity complexity

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labour-saving machinery it employs. - E. F. Schumacher quote.
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labour-saving machinery it employs.
— E. F. Schumacher

technology

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

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