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Against Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
- If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience…
- We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
- The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty…
- A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
- I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old…
- You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
- I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the…
- A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
- It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
More Against Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange