Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRepresentative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNight and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI stand for what I stand on.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNo tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReaders, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll gold is fool's gold.
@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.socialThe world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.