96 Quotes by E. F. Schumacher

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

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.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.