Quotes About Localism

If we as a party are serious about devolution, then we must respect councils and nations enough to determine their own agenda.

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

Oman is an example of how globalization at its best is built on vigorous localisms that can survive the onslaught of destructive commercial forces.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.

Apakah di Wall Street atau di sebuah lingkungan kumuh di Surabaya, tidak ada kapitalisme tanpa artikulasi lokal.

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers. Leave your car in the garage. If you have a gun, put it away. Sell that complex computer and go back to using pencil and paper. Rather than read every new book that comes along, reread the classics. Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance to change, to experimentation. The state is beginning to move in each case (though it could move a lot faster).

When we want better families, better neighbors, better friends, and better schools we shall turn our backs on national and global systems, on expert experts and specialist specialties and begin to make our own schools one by one, far from the reach of systems.

What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.

I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people.

In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing.

Whatever I have been doing in regional cinema, is restricted to the region.

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.

My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

I don't think we need a Washington-imposed solution.