E. F. Schumacher

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

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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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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

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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.

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

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We should now give some real thought to the possibility of reforming our technology in the directions of smallness, simplicity, and nonviolence.

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Quotes by E. F. Schumacher