E. F. Schumacher quotes for UPSC

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.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

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.