Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Nearing

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Scott Nearing.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Scott Nearing

Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind. — © Scott Nearing
Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Your government is no longer mine.
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