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Been Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
- If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an…
- I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better…
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
- It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve…
- It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
- We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and…
- The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced…
- You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a…
- We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We…
- One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as…
- The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and…
- We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.…
- I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about…
- History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has…
- The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful…
- They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world…
- I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour