Quotes About Agrarian

#1. agrarian societies don't repel interstellar invaders.

S.H. Jucha

#2. The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.

Richard Corliss

#3. It seems odd that a place so remarkably agrarian could have produced the prophecies and theologies upon which the entire world now relies.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

Wendell Berry

#5. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.

Karen Armstrong

#6. The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Hofstadter

#7. Sumer had devised the system of structural violence that would prevail in every single agrarian state until the modern period, when agriculture ceased to be the economic basis of civilization.

Karen Armstrong

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

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#9. I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)

Edward Abbey

#10. Women's work, like much blue-collar work and agrarian work, is often invisible and uncredited, the work that holds the world together - maintenance work as the great feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles called it in her Maintenance Art manifesto.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Vandana Shiva

#12. The Rhineland cities were developing the market economy that would eventually replace agrarian civilization; they were therefore in the very early stages of modernization, a transition that always strains social relations.

Karen Armstrong

#13. There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#14. Imperialism could only have powered an internally homogeneous State which attaches to itself agrarian zones far beneath it culturally.

Anonymous

#15. We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

Barton Seaver

#16. Their ideas helped drag humanity from agrarian poverty to manufactured plenty.

Anonymous

#17. Mao would hardly be deterred by the universal condemnation of the civilized world. He saw Stalin as his model. In the agrarian reforms, Stalin had killed seven million; Mao himself killed an estimated forty million Chinese in his reforms.49

William J. Bennett

#18. Were we just two more rootless jungle-dwelling erotomaniacs creamining in their pre-faded jeans over Historical New England, dreaming the old agrarian dream in their rent-a-car convertible

Philip Roth

#19. Imperialism was particularly encouraged by the system of capital export to the agrarian zones which emerged at the same time.

Anonymous

#20. I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

#21. Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#22. There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters.

James A. Millward

#23. Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

Charles A. Beard

#24. The highly industrialized factory farm is entirely dependent on "purchased inputs." The agrarian farm, well integrated into the natural systems that support it, runs to an economically significant extent on resources and supplies that are free. It

Wendell Berry

#25. Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation.

Stephanie Mills

#26. 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

#27. passion is all consuming

Anya Bast

#28. The sky was black and spitting rain on my smiling face.

Yann Martel

#29. Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

Buddy Guy

#30. I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.

Shaquille O'Neal

#31. If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

H.P. Lovecraft

#32. I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

Jennifer Fox

#33. Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

Les Brown

#34. All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.

Bob Proctor

#35. One thing work gives
is the joy of not working,
a minute here or there
when I stand and only breathe,
receiving the good of the air.
It comes back. Good work done
comes back into the mind,
a free breath drawn.

Wendell Berry

#36. I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

Elaine Stritch