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. E. F. Schumacher More Quotes by E. F. Schumacher More Quotes From E. F. Schumacher Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. E. F. Schumacher growth beautiful men The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. E. F. Schumacher modern accomplish littles Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. E. F. Schumacher modern degrees imagination It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection. E. F. Schumacher alive teaching perfection Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see. E. F. Schumacher eye The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product. E. F. Schumacher gross substance men If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters E. F. Schumacher economic masters ambition Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear E. F. Schumacher independence existential needs Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market E. F. Schumacher tinkering business running 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. E. F. Schumacher matter heart two 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. E. F. Schumacher achievement skills civilization True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. E. F. Schumacher ordinary men art The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. E. F. Schumacher disease research clever After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society. E. F. Schumacher society moon change Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance. E. F. Schumacher self roots lying 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. E. F. Schumacher generosity healthy needs Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders. E. F. Schumacher likes organization order Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
