"Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the
economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from
warfare."
"We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and
responsibilities that have been turned over to governments,
corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together
again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods."
”But once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an
economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the
ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by
definition."
"A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number
of persons have sold their moral allegiance."
"A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence."
"The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult
about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited
world."
"For the sake of “job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward
states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and
stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than
elsewhere. The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not
to foster or conserve.”
"When going back makes sense, you are going ahead
[permaculture] Wendell Berry quotations: The Deliberate Agrarian: Deliberate Agrarian Update: 30 November 2009,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/19/2009