Enclosure Quote by Karl Polanyi Download Open image “Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.” — Karl Polanyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enclosure Has beens Poor Revolution Rich
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. — Lloyd Banks Copy Share Image
“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society — Nathan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries...for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping, yes, this would be a transfer of income from the poor to the rich. But allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money does not qualify as taking it from the poor - unless you believe that the… — James Lileks Copy Share
“Robert Owen’s was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent evils.” — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“The root of all evil, the liberal insists, was precisely this interference with the freedom of employment, trade and currencies practiced by the various… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;” — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in the demolition… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“In the half-century 1879–1929, Western societies developed into close-knit units, in which powerful disruptive strains were latent. The more immediate source of this development… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“And yet, Burke might have countered, once the masses were fated by the laws of political economy to toil in misery, what else was… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd… — Homer Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where… — Ten Bears Copy Share Image
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
