For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

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.

Love does not imply pacifism.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.