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 gene…

- E. F. Schumacher

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

- E. F. Schumacher

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by…

- E. F. Schumacher

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

The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining o…

- E. F. Schumacher

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

- E. F. Schumacher

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

- E. F. Schumacher

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because i…

- E. F. Schumacher

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources re…

- E. F. Schumacher