Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. Ernst F Schumacher
Justice is a denial of mercy, and mercy a denial of justice. Only a higher force can reconcile these opposites: wisdom. The problem cannot be solved, but wisdom can transcend it. Ernst F Schumacher
Societies need stability and change, tradition and innovation, public interest and private interest, planning and laissez-faire policies, order and freedom, growth and decay. Everywhere society’s health depends on the simultaneous pursuit of mutually
opposed activities or aims. The adoption of a final solution means a kind of death sentence for man’s humanity and spells either cruelty or dissolution, generally both. Ernst F Schumacher
Small is beautiful. (Book title) Ernst F Schumacher
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders…. Ernst F Schumacher