Quote #31
One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.
More from Wendell Berry
- Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (th…
- We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
- To imply by the word 'terrorism' that this sort of terror is the work exclusively of 'terrorists' is misleading. The 'legitimate' warfare o…
- After World War II, we hoped the world might be united for the sake of peacemaking. Now the world is being 'globalized' for the sake of tra…
- We are alive within mystery, by miracle. 'Life,' wrote Erwin Chargaff, 'is the continual intervention of the inexplicable.' We have more th…
- Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusi…
- We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend wh…
- On eroding, ecologically degraded, increasingly toxic landscapes, worked by failing or subsidy-dependent farmers and by the cheap labor of …