Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...Tayeb Salih
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The days of the peasant, when he lived in a hut and plowed the land with his own hands, are over. The small farmer, who grows his own food and works with his own hands, is also dead at least in Western Europe. We live in an age of factories and assembly-lines; we live in an age of machines. Machines do not raise crops; they only make them easier to harvest.
Machines do not make clothes; they only make them easier to wear. Machines do not weave textiles; they only make them easier to buy. A machine can never be a substitute for a man; never can it be a substitute for the knowledge that comes from experience, from understanding what is done by hand and by heart.
Source: Season Of Migration To The North
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