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“The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.”

People Want Littles Has Beens Land Essentials Standards Labor Producers Consumers Complexity Expensive Consideration Convenience Cheapness

Author:Wendell Berry

“The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.”

Reason America Social Class Psychology Share Land Europe Labor Dear Tiny No Reason Farmers Capitalist Outlook Petty Peasants Bourgeois Protestants Ratios Inverted

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.”

Knows Joy Greater Land Succeed Labor Toil

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.”

Land Objects Europe Labor Labour

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.”

Ifs Stills Land Labor Tools Absolutes Lays Silent Forgotten Intuition Intellect Pragmatic Uncompromising

Book:The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas

Source: The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas

“Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.”

Economic Land Development Labor Function Productions Involving Economic Development Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.”

World Real Earth Water Fire Air Land Depends Models Labor Enormous Chosen Complexity Divides Real World Classification Taxonomy Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.”

People Looks Government Land Labor And Love Worthy Presidential Generous Pleasant Look Up Enterprise Magnificent Suggestions Love And Respect

Book:Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893

Source: Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893

“Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.”

States Remember Mother Father Wealth Opinion Principles Land Members Consequence Labor Killing Active

Author:William Petty

“We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.”

Ifs Eye Enjoy Trouble Land Advantage Labor Management Property Landscape Inheritance Landlord

Author:John Lubbock

“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?”

States Wealth United Class United States Rich Land Conditions Demand Mass Labor Raises Property Mere Population Feds Desirable Moderates Decency Competent Manuals Laborers

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them 'productively' because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.”