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E.F. Schumacher Quote: “There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.”

51. “There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.”

52. “Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.”

53. “Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”

55. “Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.”

56. “The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.”

57. “If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Man’s needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.”

58. “Man’s needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature...”

59. “We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature...”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.”

60. “There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom – the less you need, the freer you become.”

61. “Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom – the less you need, the freer you become.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.”

62. “There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.”

63. “At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.”

65. “No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.”

66. “By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.”

— E.F. Schumacher

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 labor-saving machinery it employs.”

67. “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.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “There are three things healthy people most need to do – to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.”

68. “There are three things healthy people most need to do – to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves.”

69. “We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.”

70. “It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.”

71. “It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.”

72. “Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.”

73. “After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed.”

74. “Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.”

75. “A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.”

— E.F. Schumacher

E.F. Schumacher Quote: “The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.”

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

— E.F. Schumacher

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