E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

E. F. Schumacher

Quotes to Explore

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

P. J. O'Rourke
- World
- Care
- Study
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi
- Long
- Humor
- Suicide
The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

Adam Ostrow
- World
- Society
- Internet
Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

Tawni O'Dell
- Up
- Long
- Writing
I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

Maajid Nawaz
- Time
- World
- Pretty
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Saint Basil
- Up
- World
- Good