Great Throughts Treasury

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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Day | Force | Reason | Rights | Will |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The economic calculus, as applied by present-day economics, forces the industrialist to eliminate the human factor because machines do not make mistakes, which people do. Hence the enormous effort at automation and the drive for ever-larger units. This means that those who have nothing to sell but their labor remain in the weakest possible bargaining position.

Antithesis | Cultivation | Dependence | Freedom |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

What we have today, in modern industrial society, is not romantic and certainly not utopianÂ…But it is in very deep trouble and holds no promise of survival. We jolly well have to have the courage to dream if we want to survive and give our children a chance of survival.

Education | Metaphysics | Present | Soul | World | Understand |

Erwin Rommel, fully Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

Art | Enemy | Strength | Time | Art |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Our science – Greek science – is based on objectification… But I do believe that this is precisely the point where our present way of thinking does need to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood transfusion from Eastern thought

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

As Marxists we have maintained that peaceful coexistence among nations does not encompass coexistence between the exploiters and the exploited, between the oppressors and the oppressed.

Heart | Rest |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Doctrine | Enemy | Humanity | Spirit | Will |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

You have to fight for every breath and send death to hell.

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

We have indeed labored to make some of the capital which today helps us to produce – a large fund of scientific, technological, and other knowledge; an elaborate physical infrastructure; innumerable types of sophisticated capital equipment, etc. – but all this is but a small part of the total capital we are using. Far larger is the capital provided by nature and not by man – and we do not even recognize it as such. This larger part is now being used up at an alarming rate, and that is why it is an absurd and suicidal error to believe, and act on the belief, that the problem of production has been solved.

Convictions | Faith | Heart | Ideas | Mind | Reason | War |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If you are feeling a shortage of time or money, your best effort would be to focus upon better-feeling thoughts, and do more things that make you feel good.

Day | Nothing | Talking | Work |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

God | God |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Day | Revolution | Spirit |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Effort | Science |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

I do not agree with what you say, but I'll stand to the death defending your right to say what you want.

Fighting | Individual | Method | Objectives | Will |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

Neither of the primitive men we have spoken of, nor of those who immediately succeeded them, can we rightly predicate any knowledge of nature.

Circumstances | Day | Evolution | History | Ignorance | Important | Man | Phenomena |

Ernst Toller

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Day | Evolution | Important | Man | People | Phenomena | Science | Truths |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, monotonous, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of "bread and circuses" can compensate for the damage done – these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence – because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

Experience | Knowledge | Technology | Truth |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

On the basis of experience and conscious thought small ideas may easily be dislodged, but when it comes to bigger, more universal or more subtle ideas it may not be so easy to change them. Indeed, it is often difficult to become aware of them, as they are the instruments and not the results of our thinking—just as you can see what is outside you, but cannot easily see that with which you see, the eye itself.

Existence | People | Society | Society |

Esaias Tegnér

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Light |

Erwin Rommel, fully Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.