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Local Quotes by Wendell Berry
- An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled…
- It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
- Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy…
- Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
- In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,…
- The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of…
- A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good…
- We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
- We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you…
- Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all…
- 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…
- The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
- The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands…
- Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you…
More Local Quotes
- Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. — Alvin Adams
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on. — Ronnie Barker
- Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our… — Melissa Bean
- I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations. — Diane Abbott
- An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a… — Wendell Berry
- A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the… — Annie Besant
- Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the… — Jello Biafra
- Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. — Jello Biafra
- I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition… — Justin Bieber
- In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from… — Lewis Black
- If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame… — Michael Bloomberg