It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

We live the given life, and not the planned.