Kathy Benavides

“I suggest that the foundations of peace cannot be laid by universal prosperity, in the modern sense, because such prosperity, if attainable at all, is attainable only by cultivating such drives of human nature as greed and envy, which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity, and thereby the peacefulness of man.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

“But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.”
― Victoria Logue, Redemption

“where is the rich society that says: ‘Halt! We have enough’?”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: The classic call for human-scale economics which is now more relevant than ever

“It is moreover obvious that men organised in small units will take better care of their bit of land or other natural resources than anonymous companies or megalomanic governments which pretend to themselves that the whole universe is their legitimate quarry.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: The classic call for human-scale economics which is now more relevant than ever