I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialI would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic is a savage art, a measured madness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumility is a virtue when you have no other.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMoney confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialFor this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGrowth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHeaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThis world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAt some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnd I am struck once again by the unutterable beauty, terror, and strangeness of everything we think we know.