E. F. Schumacher Needs Quotations

There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear