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E. F. Schumacher
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E. F. Schumacher
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 16
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Economist
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Bonn
Germany
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
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Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
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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.
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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.
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There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
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There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.
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The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be uneconomic you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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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 labor-saving machinery it employs.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
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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.
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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.
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I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
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I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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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.
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Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.
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