E. F. Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful (1973)

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

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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

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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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Education can help us only if it produces whole men. The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the whole man in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories, he may treasure the Encyclopædia Britannica because she knows and he needn't, but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.

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

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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.

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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

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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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Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

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It is of little use trying to suppress terrorism if the production of deadly devices continues to be deemed a legitimate employment of man's creative powers.

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