Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.