E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Scientific and technological “solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

Small is beautiful

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.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

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.