A world without open country would be universal jail.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.