The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist

Essay (1968), “The Loss of the Future,” Religious Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 47
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Collected in The Long-Legged House, Part 2 (1969).