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No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
E. F. Schumacher
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E. F. Schumacher
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 16
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Economist
Philosopher
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Bonn
Germany
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
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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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Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
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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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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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There are poor societies which have too little but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
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