Quotes by Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

Explore a curated collection of 6 quotes by Wendell Berry, What Are People For?. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Much protest is naïve; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not co — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
More and more, we take for granted that work must be destitute of pleasure. More and more, we assume that if we want to — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift…They assume—and this is the orthodox ass — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (id — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live und — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?