The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
E. F. SchumacherAnyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
E. F. SchumacherThe 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.
E. F. SchumacherMuch 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.
E. F. Schumacher