The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialInstant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEach thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCounterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmerica My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialJ. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty--you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGood writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOriginal sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us - if only we were worthy of it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI am not an atheist but an earthiest.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCapitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHigh technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnd if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.