Wendell Berry Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

  Wendell Berry

  Commitment, People, Principles

• If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")

  Wendell Berry

  Real, Animal, Air

  Wendell Berry (2010). “The Hidden Wound”, p.129, Counterpoint Press

• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Obsession, Granted

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

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