F. Schumacher
F. Schumacher
running tinkering inventor
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
ambition economic masters
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
land scarcity answers
Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.
spiritual mean men
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man. The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man as if people did not matter at all.
people giving ego
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 others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.
spiritual peace men
Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
life art inspire
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
independence needs existential
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
simple needs simple-living
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.
eye
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
lying ideas giving
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid, uninteresting, petty, and chaotic. It is difficult to bear the resultant feeling of emptiness, and the vacuum of our minds may only too easily be filled by some big, fantastic notion - political or otherwise - which suddenly seem to illumine everything and to give meaning and purpose to our existence. It needs no emphasis that herein lies one of the great dangers of our time.
generosity healthy needs
The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.
heart two world
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.
tree decay world
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.