96 Quotes by E. F. Schumacher

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

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders....

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

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.