E. F. Schumacher Quotes

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

E. F. Schumacher

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Society
  • Free
  • Political

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Help
  • Society
  • You

• I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Society
  • Always
  • Honor

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Think
  • Society
  • Amazing

• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Why
  • Society
  • Man

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Politics
  • Identity

• If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tough

• At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Family
  • High
  • Society

• Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Society
  • Best
  • Better

• It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Future
  • Society

• I may say that Buddhism does indeed come closer in essence to reality than other religions. However, the Buddhist either have not gone far enough, or have gone too far, according to your viewpoint. If they have gone too far, then they have been so concerned with inner reality that they have become

  

  Jane Roberts
  • May
  • Reality

• Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Society