Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
E. F. SchumacherIt might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
E. F. SchumacherThere is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
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. Schumacher