Think Little Quotes

“We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.”
― Wendell Berry, Think Little: Essays

“If you talk a good line without being changed by what you say, then you are not just hypocritical and doomed; you have become an agent of the disease.”
― Wendell Berry, Think Little: Essays

“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with.”
― Wendell Berry, Think Little: Essays

“I believe in American political principles, and I will not sit idly by and see those principles destroyed by sorry practice. I am ashamed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.”
― Wendell Berry, Think Little: Essays