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- The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or…
- For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
- We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An…
- A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
- A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
- 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…
- If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
- 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,…
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner…
- One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
- True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly…
- A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs…
- The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
- When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
- 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…
- To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is…
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
- There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
- 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;…
- One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity…
- Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
- and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its…
- It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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 find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle