E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

E. F. Schumacher

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Stop

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Long
  • Listening
  • Look

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Hero
  • Heroic

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Writing
  • School

• I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

  

  Kaskade
  • World
  • Best
  • Always

• I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• I lose my way/And it's not too long before you point it out/I cannot cry/Because you know that's weakness in your eyes/I'm forced to fake/A smile, a laugh everyday of my life/My heart can't possibly break/When it wasn't even whole to start with.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• Cancer does not discriminate.

  

  Kellie Pickler
  • Cancer

• I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Art
  • Storyteller
  • Novelist

• Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Worst

• Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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  • Soul