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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

— Wendell Berry Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community (1993)

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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

A Continuous Harmony (1972)

It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.

The Unsettling of America (1977)

If you can control a people’s economy, you don’t need to worry about its politics; its politics have become irrelevant.

Another Turn of the Crank (1996)

To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

What Are People For? (1990)

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