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„Dokáži si snadno představit, že příští velké dělení světa bude mezi lidmi, kteří touží žít jako lidské bytosti, a těmi, kdo chtějí žít jako stroje.“

Wendell Berry

Originál: (en) It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.
Zdroj: [Antropologie není jen měření lebek. Co by mohl o člověku vědět každý člověk, zpravy.idnes.cz, 2010-10-16, 2011-03-15, http://zpravy.idnes.cz/antropologie-neni-jen-mereni-lebek-co-by-mohl-o-cloveku-vedet-kazdy-clovek-1rg-/kavarna.asp?c=A101013_134531_kavarna_chu]
Zdroj: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, 2001

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“The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country — or, for that matter, a region — to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people’s ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?”

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"A Bad Big Idea"
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community (1993)

“Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.”

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"The Responsibility of the Poet"
What Are People For? (1990)

“Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out for longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone's individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”

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"A Poem of Difficult Hope"
What Are People For? (1990)

“We haven't accepted — we can't really believe — that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.”

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"The Rise"
The Long-Legged House (1969)

“If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer — and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.”

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"A Statement against the War in Vietnam"
The Long-Legged House (1969)

“We have become blind to the alternatives to violence. This involves us in a sort of official madness, in which, while following what seems to be a perfect logic of self-defense and deterrence, we commit one absurdity after another: We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to "win the hearts and minds of the people" by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps; we seek to uphold the "truth" of our cause with lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and intimidations. … I have come to the realization that I can no longer imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would be against any war.”

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"A Statement Against the War in Vietnam" an address at the University of Kentucky (10 February 1968) http://books.google.com/books?id=-hHNuLumg8wC&pg=PA68
The Long-Legged House (1969)