“I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.” Has BeensUseProblemAgeBeliefLanguageModernIntellectualIllusionTreatsBasesErrorsEnvironmentalProductionsDuesIncomeEconomistInabilityStewardshipSophisticationIrreplaceableSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.” PeopleNeedsThreeMoralModernHealthyImpulseProductiveThree ThingsModern Society Author:E. F. Schumacher
“If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?” IfsMenDoeEconomicModernMastersHigherActivityStandardsAdvantageGreedPursueStandards Of LivingFrenzyModern ManHigher StandardsRuthlessnessSmall Is Beautiful Author:E. F. Schumacher
“The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.” LittlesModernIndustryAccomplish Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.” SeemsImaginationModernIndustryDegreesRemainsEndureUnnoticedInefficiencyPower Of Imagination Author:E. F. Schumacher
“The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.” BookSometimesFunnyReadingForgetModernBlessingPressesCursePrintingModern TimesPrinting PressGreatest Blessings Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.” ThinkingMenWorldLongTermNaturalEconomicModernEconomicsAppreciateLong TermDependenceNatural World Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side” IfsMenSidesNatureForgetEnvironmentModernBattleLosingEcologyNatural EnvironmentNature Of ManModern ManBeautiful NatureOne With NatureMan And NatureSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“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.” LittlesSeemsImaginationModernIndustryDegreesOrdinaryRemainsAccomplishUnnoticedInefficiencyPower Of ImaginationSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.” MenWorldModernHigherDemandFacultySkepticismModern WorldSkeptical Author:E. F. Schumacher
“That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.” HumansSoulDoneFactsWould BeHumanitySilenceModernHuman NatureCrimeProduceAmountMetsDenyBreadAbsurdMaking MoneyAcknowledgeDamageInsultDestroyingMeaninglessDeniedConspiracyAggressionCircusEscapismPreoccupationModern SocietyUnbreakableCrimes Against HumanitySmall Is BeautifulBread And Circuses Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
