A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.