Laws are the blind spot of justice.
When a person is frugal the belt is tightened around their waste; when a corporation is frugal the belt is tightened around another’s neck. We haven’t executed any corporations, but they’ve executed plenty of us.
A politician echoes the interests of those 18 years and older who might vote; a leader hears the interests of those 17 years and younger who may never vote.
If a thing has no intrinsic value, then its propagation is sure to do intrinsic harm on the value of others.
You teach a man to fish and he eats forever; you give a man his fish and you choose when he starves.
To take the lesser of a great evil as your friend is to be your own enemy.
The life energy isn’t hidden, we hide ourselves from it.
We can roll with the punches, but when it comes to cars and guns, we cannot so easily roll with them. At best we can survive their rolling on us.
Watch for the hidden prick hiding behind the veneer of a safety pin.
If your revolution has few elements of joy contained within as viewed from the perspective of its vanguard, then what power does it have to attract a full investment on the part of the rest of the society? Harken to the words of Red Emma regarding dance, and dare not conflate joy with the ephemeral and empty promises of possessions that keep misery in oscillation.
Self-absorption is the implosion of any space for a self to emerge.
A martyr is usually co-opted by a prime institution of power of which the martyr’s death was essentially in opposition to. Jesus’s co-optation by the Church is just such an example we can witness today.
The touch screen is mightier than the pen is mightier than the sword is mightier than the lot of us; what increasing sophistication cages us these sunless days.
Civilization has maimed us and so civilization has named us. Regrowth is not precluded, and injury is not death! Fight back with all that remains, and gift yourself a nom de guerre—a name such that within is symbolized your war against naming itself.
A man robs a bank and the man is imprisoned; a bank robs the world and the world is imprisoned.
Lack of a refuge does not erase the refugee. Erasing a house does not erase the home if a group is shouldered by the tribal.
That which you get used to you will inevitably get used by.
That which milks you today will surely bleed you tomorrow, and the milk is starting to run dry; as a matter of fact, so is the blood.
Crooked by 360 degrees is what it is to be straight.
Necessity itself is an invention, but it is an insult to all others to regard it as mother.
Those involved with Christianity are mostly X-centric. Happier to dwell on the death of a great man and its ramifications for them personally as opposed to the life of a great man and what it exemplifies as a corrective to the western way of being.
A fish out of the water is today’s dinner, and a human off the land is tomorrow’s breakfast.
Police yourself with the laws of an oppressive society, and you are under the dome of the state; police yourself with your own laws, and you are living in freedom. So says a Kantian anarchist.
I pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all. Quietly protest the rest, with gusto!
The primary difference between capitalism and fascism is the spelling.
Animals so free we wouldn’t even call them human; thoughts so free we couldn’t even recall them.
Government for the masses will always suffer from a staff infection, and its bureaucracies will always be the most resistant to treatment.
Our fears for our health in this life allows entry for the parasitical medical industrial complex, just as our fears for our health in the after life allows entry for the religious industrial complex. What unadulterated life is there to turn towards but a fearless life?
Sitting is hard to get around in these sedentary traps we have set ourselves. Fight the paradox—rise up, and take a stand!
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