Great saying by great authors Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know it was…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able…

— Michael Shellenberger

“Nor could wheat offer security against human violence. The early farmers were at least as violent as their forager ancestors, if not more”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity…

— Tom Tancredo

“After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their positions.  Most…

— Walter Jon Williams

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the…

— Aldo Leopold

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore…

— Karl Marx

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but…

— Artemas Ward

Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather…

— Friedrich Engels

“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A”

— Timothy Snyder

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