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Wendell Berry: "Standar profesional, standar ambisi dan keegoisan, sel...

"Standar profesional, standar ambisi dan keegoisan, selalu meluncur ke bawah ke arah pengeluaran, kesombongan, dan biasa-biasa saja. Mereka cenderung selalu mempersempit landasan penilaian. Tetapi standar amatir, standar cinta, selalu berusaha ke atas menuju yang rendah hati dan yang terbaik. Mereka memperbesar dasar penghakiman. Konteks cinta adalah dunia."

--- Wendell Berry

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.