Action Quote by Karl Marx

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field;…

— Friedrich Engels

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all…

— Karl Marx

“If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with…

— Wendell Berry

Men no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it, divide it into shares, prostitute it, bargain with it and treat it as…

— Tashunka Witko

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture…

— Sun Yat-sen

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

— David F. Houston

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people.…

— Ludwig von Mises

“essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits…

— Eugene Odum