TuesdayMay 20, 2025
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses....
If the end does not justify the means what can?
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
Grown men do not need leaders.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.... No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Beware the writer who always encloses the word 'reality' in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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