Arthur Young Quotes & Sayings

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. — Arthur Young

Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious — Arthur Young

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. — Arthur Young

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion. — Arthur Young

The purpose creates the machine. — Arthur Young

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else. — Arthur Young

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. — Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. — Arthur Young

The magic of property turns sand to gold. — Arthur Young

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. — Arthur Young