E. F. Schumacher Quotes

The greatest deprivation anyone can suffer is to have no chance of looking after himself and making a livelihood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

technology

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self- adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

nature technology