Society and the World

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

The ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.