Economy Quotes by Wendell Berry

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

— Wendell Berry

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And…

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“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global…

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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as…

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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable…

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A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words,…

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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive…

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... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family…

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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy…

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“For the sake of “job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come…

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Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters,…

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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've…

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But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from…

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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As…

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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

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The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic…

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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

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I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved…

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“If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental…

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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…

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And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.…

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Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form…

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The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood…

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“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not…

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“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult…

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“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful…

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There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for…

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People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people…

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A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as…

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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable… It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and…

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Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run…

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Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because…

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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess…

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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best.…

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We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy…

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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying…

— Wendell Berry