E. F. Schumacher

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

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.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

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

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

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

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.

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

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

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