Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something that they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.