Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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@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.
@colstar13.bsky.socialStatue of D.H. Lawrence 1885 - 1930 at Newstead Abbey, Nottingham. #dhlawrence #statue #newstead #abbey #nottingham
@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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic is a savage art, a measured madness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.