“The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?”

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from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation

Art of Quotation

“We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?”

Wendell Berry, writer, from  “Confronting the Consequences of Runaway Capitalism”. Interview with Bill Moyers, October 7, 2013.

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