83 Quotes by E.F. Schumacher

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom – the less you need, the freer you become.

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

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.

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

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.