"Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state."

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Source : Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing

Kirkpatrick Sale

#Government Quotes #Size Quotes #Misery Quotes

“I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.”
“I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.”
“We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.”
“It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.”
“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.”
“Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.”
“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“Never use a warning when you mean undo.”

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