E. F. Schumacher Citas

• Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Thinking, Forever, Insane

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• Cualquier tonto inteligente puede hacer las cosas más grandes y complejas... Se necesita un toque de genialidad - y mucho valor para moverse en la dirección opuesta.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspiración, motivación, valor

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• We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Success, Integrity, Soul

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• Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Beautiful, Technology, Demand

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Organization, Discipline, People

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• El sistema de la naturaleza, del que el hombre forma parte, tiende a autoequilibrarse, autoajustarse y autolimpiarse. No ocurre lo mismo con la tecnología.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Men, Self

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Practice, Theory, Small Is Beautiful

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

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  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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• The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

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  Gente, Dar, Ego

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• The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Giving, Intellectual, Aids

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Hay tres cosas que las personas sanas necesitan hacer: ser creativamente productivas, prestar servicios y actuar de acuerdo con sus impulsos morales. En estos tres aspectos, la sociedad moderna frustra a la mayoría de las personas la mayor parte del tiempo.

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  People, Healthy, Three Things

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• I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

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  Wind, Sail, Ready

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• An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

  E. F. Schumacher

  People, Attention, Goods

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• En la actualidad, no cabe duda de que la humanidad entera está en peligro de muerte, no porque nos falten conocimientos científicos y tecnológicos, sino porque tendemos a utilizarlos de forma destructiva, sin sabiduría. Más educación sólo puede ayudarnos si produce más sabiduría.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Doubt, Growth, Use

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

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  Simple, Needs, Simple Living

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• Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

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  Land, Use, Study

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Beautiful, Technology, Progress

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• Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

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  Spiritual, Peace, Men

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Intelligent, Simplicity, Genius

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• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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  Courage, Organization, Simplicity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Mucha gente ama en sí misma lo que odia en los demás

  E. F. Schumacher

  Hate, People, Complacency

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• Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

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  Nature, Men, Battle

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Wind, Climate Change, Sail

  "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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• The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Tasks, Fundamentals, Achieve

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Sacred, Small Is Beautiful

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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