The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.
E. F. SchumacherAnything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
E. F. SchumacherMan's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
E. F. SchumacherI 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.
E. F. Schumacher