Arrangements Quote by Pope Paul VI

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power, culture, attraction…

— E.F. Schumacher

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as the cause…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find spouses. The…

— Patricia D. Netzley

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I…

— Ronald Wright

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd,…

— Edward Everett