Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
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. SchumacherWhy 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. SchumacherTo organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.
E. F. Schumacher