Artisans Quote by Flora Thompson

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

— Wendell Berry

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even…

— George Packer

“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted,…

— Charles Churchill

the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities,…

— Edward Abbey

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward…

— David Riesman

“The most striking fact of the day was the misery of the industrial proletariat. Despite the growth of the economy, or perhaps in part…

— Thomas Piketty

“The destruction of artisanal industries by colonial trade policies did not just impact the artisans themselves. The British monopoly of industrial production drove Indians…

— Shashi Tharoor

“In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are…

— W.B. Yeats