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

— Wendell Berry Another Turn of the Crank (1996)

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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)

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)

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

The Long-Legged House (1969)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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